‘No Use for Hatred’: A Village Seeks to Move On From a U.S. Massacre The hamlet of My Lai is infamous for American war crimes, but now it holds lessons in resilience and how to let go of anger.

New York Times ^ | 17th November 2024 | Damien Cave

[dfwgator]

Should never have allowed the French to get Indochina back after the war.

[Raven6]

Bingo!!! We have a winner!

[PeterPrinciple]

My personal conclusion...

My Lai was a grotesque and deliberate distortion of reality.

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It is complex. One interesting thing is that in reviewing ww2, it was discovered that most servicemen did not shoot to kill. For the VN war the program was changed. It takes a lot to teach people to kill. They did what they were trained to do and then we didn’t like it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grossman_(author)

In Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence, Grossman argues that the techniques used by armies to train soldiers to kill are mirrored in certain types of video games. He claims that playing violent video games, particularly light gun shooters of the first-person shooter-variety (where the player holds a weapon-like game controller), train children in the use of weapons and, more importantly, harden them emotionally to the task of murder by simulating the killing of hundreds or thousands of opponents in a single typical video game. He has repeatedly used the term “murder simulator” to describe first-person shooter games.

[Cronos]

Correct.

The French stuck too in their colonies.

The British figured out that if they left with some grace, they could retain the love-hate relationship rather than a hate-hate relationship

[dfwgator]

Especially since the Vichy French allowed the Japs to use Indochina as a staging area to attack the US in The Philippines.