Word: scapegoat
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...country? That a young man should expose himself to peril only to be court-martialed and convicted upon his return home is incredible. The idea that there is a "right" and "wrong" in war is ludicrous. I cannot believe that we will allow Galley to serve as scapegoat for our guilty consciences...
While it is true that Galley alone must not be allowed to bear the total blame, how can he be considered a scapegoat? A scapegoat is one who bears punishment for the mistakes of others. Is he so incompetent a human being that he is totally free of responsibility for his actions? MARY ANNE HARRISON Highland Park...
...early nomination for TIME's Man of the Year is Lieut. William Calley, scapegoat of a war we don't know what to do with. What a laugh: convicted of premeditated murder [April 12]. All of us who called for those bomb-bay doors to be opened while serving in World War II knew we were going to kill civilians as well as military. And what about Hiroshima...
...Munro been picked as a scapegoat for a frustrated NCAA defeat, or was a successful season made miserable by misguided coaching...
...title of one chapter sardonically sums up the horrendous confusion: "It Never Happened and Besides They Deserved It." With an astounding, indeed sickening distortion of moral sensibility, many Americans tried to turn Calley into a hero. Many others sought refuge in the oversimple conclusion that Calley was merely a scapegoat. Some echoed the argument of Calley's chief defense counsel, George Latimer, that the Army sent Calley to Viet Nam to kill and should not punish him for doing precisely that. Says Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer: "Who is at fault? The people who gave the orders or the people...