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Do they disagree with any arguments, or just wishful thinking? My Lai and the UN are just the most glaring examples of him putting his career before everything
by merpnderp 5y ago
Do they disagree with any arguments, or just wishful thinking? My Lai and the UN are just the most glaring examples of him putting his career before everything else.
I still don't understand how a person who tried to cover up (in the most laughably inept manner) the massacre of civilians by the US Army didn't spend the rest of his life as a pariah, let alone get positive press in the media for decades. Then add in his lying to the UN to start a war and you wonder if there's no crime that can't be forgiven as long as that person supports the powers that be.
- h2odragon 5y agoI have had discussion with people who I must credit with being sincere, who believed Mr Powell was a true American Hero whose accomplishments and achievements should be lauded and emulated. I didn't agree with or understand their arguments well enough to try repeating them. I think those arguing that way were praising a faithful servant to any master, with no morals or principle of his own. as if thats a good thing to be. I hope im wrong and just failed to understand them.
- merpnderp 5y agoThe court cases allowing many of of the Vietnamese atrocities to go unpunished allowed people to claim they were "just following orders." You might not be wrong...
- CulturalMarxism 5y ago> unpunished I'll have you know that William Calley Jr served three-and-a-half years under house arrest.