[Ryzorian]

Mai lai was a tradgady no doubt. However, they cleared out villages because the VC would hide amoung the civilians and take potshots at troops. Hideing behind civilians is not the same as hideing behind trees. If you want to blame anyone for the deaths in those villages, blame the VC who utilized that tactic. It would be like American minute men fireing on British regulars from every house and church in town, with woman and children running in batween the combatants, talk about poor form.

It's the same in the middle east, the enemy chooses to fight in schools and hospitals, that's THEIR choice and THIER responsability when the airstrike hits. I won't sympathize with that. The jihadi's picked this fight, and it's being brought to thier doorstep because that's where they retreated too. Nor has the US used chemical weapons, what nonsense.

Germany and Russia traded massacres back and forth almost daily.