Letters to the Editor
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Truth Is the First Casualty
The writer's points are well taken, but isn't it always this way in wars? It has taken the Germans several generations to come to terms with their actions in WW II, and the process is hardly complete. And even there there is the fiction that the atrocities were the sole province of the professional murderers in the SS, not ordinary soldiers. We now know this was far from the truth -- there were countless atrocities by regular army troops. Then there are the French in Algeria, the Italians in Ethiopia, the Russians in Afghanistan -- it is universal. Hopefully our US troops are better than most, but no way are they blameless.
The real atrocity is the blind craziness of pursuing war as a policy, as in Iraq,and setting these forces in motion. It's not as if it couldn't have been predicted by Bush and his friends, since it was predicted by lots of other people. But Bush and friends aren't the ones who pay the price, are they?