Posted on 03/28/2024 5:37:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Thank you for those comments from her father. Just on reading the headline I figured that it was a good photo to be selected. Not that the photo is all that good - but it sure tells a story. Or at least the beginning of a story that is still being told.
Didn’t the Supreme Court overturn that law?
Are you an academic?
Usually your sort of poor judgement is found in people who live sheltered lives.
That killing took place in the middle of urban combat in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. Combatants don’t get arrested, they get shot. Combatants purposely not wearing uniforms get executed. We did exactly that in WWII with German soldiers in the US.
I had no idea that was the back story of that famous photo. Thank you.
The sole survivor of Lém’s alleged killing of Tuân’s family was Huan Nguyen; aged nine at the time, he was shot three times during the attack that killed his family and stayed with his mother for two hours as she bled to death.
In 2019, he became the highest-ranking Vietnamese-American officer in the U.S. military when he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy.
- Wikipedia
True. Sad but true.
Find all four of those savages and kill them.
Then kill their families.
Every last one.
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I am not an academic, I am a retired engineer/engineering manager.
As such I am accustomed to making dispassionate analyses - in my world of building and running complex systems (me and my colleagues were very much of the the tribe of “those that do”) this is essential.
This is a case of a passionate reaction. In my professional world that must be avoided like the plague. It gets in the way of trouble-shooting, design and implementation of solutions. And vastly more so in an emergency.
Kiplings poem “IF” is the core of us -
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if-—
The mindless mantra "We're better than that" doesn't apply in a hot war; that is, unless your objective is to get your arse kicked ... kicked hard! Cheers!
We are certainly not “better than that”.
We think what we think, and those thoughts in themselves are sins. Thinking about shooting that creature is already a sin, and a fit point to bring up in confession. I have no aspiration to become sinless.
The point of it all is utilitarian. It is a matter of habitual discipline, directed, in war, to specific political goals. Victory matters more than anything, more than personal passion, more than personal survival. One captured, non-dangerous terrorist more or less matters not at all, he is an irrelevant cipher, a number in a prison camp. If one makes the creature a martyr he is no longer a cipher, and that detracts from your goal of victory.
We are not machines. Under the strain of fatigue, fear and tragedy we can let passion direct us. But that submission to passion is still a failure.
Not just one law. I didn’t know at first. Some upheld, some curtailed.
Here is a Freedom Forum summary.
https://www.freedomforum.org/son-of-sam-laws/
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