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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
The US didn't rape half of Vietnam, that's an outright lie. They may have had problems, but the whole army wasn't pillageing as an orcastrated action through the government like Russia was, or Germany for that matter, cause they did it as well. It's common knowledge that if you want to surrender to someone, your best option is America, cause your least likely to be massacred than if anyone else caught you. Japanese prisoners of war can attest to this.
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It was never official policy of Russia or Germany to rape women and children, either; it's just no one gave a f***. If there was less rape done by the US in Vietnam, I'd say it was due to less oppurtunity rather than will.
But there were orders coming from fairly high up in the US military to "clear out villages". But after My Lai, they left that up to the bombers coz it would look worse if they did it by hand.
It was an official strategy of the US to cut off the Vietnamese food supply... by bombing the rice growing villages.
Even in modern day, the recent Iraq war, they used chemical weapons to indiscrimanatley clear out Fallujah.