This story, and especially the quote that you highlighted, is Stalin's "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" demonstrated at a working level.
The press is going to work this BS for all it's worth. I have no patience for people with no sense of history or proportion, and the press and their sycophants are historically illiterate boobs.
Such idiots are easily fooled. Knowhutahmean?
I predict there will be a Lt. Calley coming out of this.
If Roosevelt, understanding war and its requirements, had not imposed press censorship, that is.