They had been thoroughly brainwashed that we Americans would rape them to death in the most abominable manner possible. I don't hold them morally accountable for their actions. The people who brainwashed them were absolute, immoral monsters.
The people who brainwashed them were moral idiots. My late father-in-law was on Saipan. He saw all of it.
“The people who brainwashed them were absolute, immoral monsters.”
Perhaps. But a few of them placed on our border with loudspeakers pointed at Mexico....