[wai-ming]

Thanks for your excellent research.

Here's the Genghis Khan quote, made by Kerry in 1971, as reported by the Washington Times (May 2, 2004):

"He [Kerry] asserted our soldiers 'raped, cut off ears, cut off heads,... cut off limbs, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages... reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside.'"

The movie depicts rape (of a Vietnamese girl by American soldiers), razing villages, shooting for fun, etc. It also compares what the Americans were doing to the exploits of Genghis Khan.

Hmmm.

[windchime]

You're welcome!  Wish more could be found on Daniel Lang.  If he is still alive, he was too old to serve in Vietnam.  The following was written by Lang in 1945.  There is a Daniel Lang II in the movie world, but I find no evidence he's written for the New Yorker.

From Hiroshima to the Moon: Chronicles of Life in the Atomic Age  By Daniel Lang

Lang could have done an interview that served as a basis for his 1969 article.  If he did, who was the subject?  Kerry's testimony was in 1971......did he use Lang's article for his testimony?  Like you, I say a loud hmmmm in the similarity of the language used.

As you can readily tell, I get lost in details that may not be relevant.  :)