Everything Old Is New Again
King of Zembla Our esteemed colleague Newt of This Is Rumor Control, reviewing declassified documents about the war crimes committed by the members o
Our esteemed colleague Newt of This Is Rumor Control, reviewing declassified documents about the war crimes committed by the members of Tiger Force, discovered a couple of threads connecting those Vietnam-era atrocities to the up-to-date horrors of Abu Ghraib:
In October of 2003, after two years of work, the Toledo Blade newspaper published a harrowing account of Tiger Force's merciless patrols through Vietnam's remote and deadly Central Highlands. Good soldiers of conscience blew the whistle but no one stepped in to stop the carnage. Later when the Army did investigate, even recommending murder charges, the case was dropped and forgotten until it was discovered by the Blade decades later. The Blade series won a Pulitzer Prize and the publicity prompted the Pentagon to begin anew an investigation into the old war crimes....read on