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...Right." Col. Arana, "a right wing law and order candidate" is unable to bring peace. The article does not say that Col. Arana is the right terror, and it does not say that the U.S. is backing him. The liberal press may serve up a few "atrocity" stories (Mv Lai), but quarantines the facts which might connect the atrocities with . . . liberals. A step above this is Goulden's Nation article, which tells of Arana's U.S. support, but blames this on that dark power "the Pentagon." What about the Alliance for Progress, AID, the U.S. Ambassador, United Fruit, the coffee...
Yamashita was judged guilty and responsible for atrocities committed by his Japanese troops in the Philippines, even though he had no regular communications with his men in the field. Westmoreland was in a better position than Yamashita to prevent a My Lai: he presided over the most sophisticated and continuous net of communications ever available to a military commander...
...Army has already weighed Westmoreland's responsibility for My Lai and found him guiltless. That is hardly surprising, since it is one thing for the victor to judge the vanquished and quite another, realistically, for an army and a nation still locked in combat to judge its own too harshly...
...Lai 4, by Seymour Hersh. An account of the massacre of Vietnamese civilians by the Pulitzer prizewinning journalist who broke the story...
Latimer has not denied that Calley killed some Vietnamese at My Lai. It is not likely he will do so. Instead, he is offering circumstantial evidence that he hopes will appeal to the military tribunal. Calley will eventually take the stand on his own behalf as well. Perhaps he will answer the one remaining question about My Lai: Why did it happen...