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(See below) Shocking! From Military Times! Something like what Julian Assange revealed, except safely 70 years in the past. But one might see this as a counter narrative to the “myth” that Americans (and our
allies) could never behave like our dreadful enemies, fascist or communist. Or the Native Americans, upon whom we practiced the methods of annihilation that we would then take forward with us when we finally got the kind of ships that could take our “warfighters”
beyond the confines of this hemisphere, and the “Small Wars” we had always fought here under the Monroe Doctrine, and its Teddy “Roosevelt Corollary.” Multiplied now as the US Perpetual War, or the Global War for Full Spectrum Dominance as it began in the
1990s, and soon one begins to wonder if this “American Way of War” isn’t akin to the ideology that our WW II enemies once held, which celebrated war, and the “Warrior,” almost as much as we do now? And used the same deception that they wanted “peace,” just
like we do.
Obviously Military Times has become “Woke!” Sound the Alarm!
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/08/23/us-forces-remember-pows-killed-on-hill-303-during-korean-war/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mil-ebb#:~:text=In a wreath-laying ceremony,more than 70 years ago.
"However, U.S. troops were also known
to have committed atrocities against both North Korean forces and civilians alike.
Historian Bruce Cumings has previously called the Korean War an “appallingly
dirty” civil war. When referencing war crimes committed during the conflict, Cumings noted that South Korea, “our ostensibly democratic ally, was the worst offender, contrary to the American image of the North Koreans as fiendish terrorists.”
"Then there was the indiscriminate bombings by U.S. forces that have scarred the North to this day.
Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, estimated in an interview with the
Office of Air Force History in 1984 that “we killed off — what — twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure.”
"According to Cumings, the U.S. dropped around 635,000 tons of bombs and 32,557 tons of napalm over the three-year war, which is more than was used in the entire Pacific region of conflict during the Second World War."
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