“American soldiers slaughtered civilians in My Lai during the Vietnam war. By this point, Mizz Ladd’s examples are become rather fatuous. To rephrase her statement for more accuracy, “A small handful of American soldiers slaughtered civilians in My Lai during the Vietnam war.” This was neither official American military doctrine nor was it common practice. The use it as an example is, at best, desperate, if not disingenuous.”
People who keep bringing the up conveniently forget that it wasn’t the VC or the NVA that stopped the massacre, but other American soldiers who were willing to fire on their own men to stop it.
She probably learned her history from Dan Rather on that one.