YouTuber Ethan Klein calls for bombing of NRA conference
(thepostmillennial.com)
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Even when this helicopter pilot confronted an officer in the standoff it wasn't Calley there (as it's often misreported), it was 2nd Lt. Brooks of the 3rd Platoon who really wanted to "get these people out" with a grenade.
So Captain Medina was lying and he did want them all dead. Just like he shot this woman. (He was also accused of shooting a child but then a private took it on himself and so he was never even charged with it.) He saw things from the air, he saw things on the ground (including coming across a large group of bodies), but he only ordered ceasefire after the "helicopter mutiny" (my term I just invented).
So anyway, just I told you, anti-war crowd rightly perceived Calley as a scapegoat of a nasty war.
The literature on this is enormous. Here's one another for you to read: https://publicseminar.org/essays/the-whistleblowers-of-the-my-lai-massacre/ (yes, the name "My Lai" only existed on an American map).
So you say Calley was just following (illegal) orders, and nothing more?
But in any case. Let's say Calley was a scapegoat. It means no one was held accountable for these crimes against humanity. Friend-enemy applies to that as well.
Thanks. You really love the 20th century. Your mod note on the subreddit was 'very knowledgeable about the Holocaust', btw.
He was very enthusiastic about fulfilling the orders. He also only (publicly) showed any remorse decades later, in 2009. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32514139