Reply #6: Not My Lai...More Like Khe Sahn Or Hue or Warsaw Ghetto

[KharmaTrain]

My Lai was just the ransacking of a small village (one of many we destroyed).

This is a seige in the most classic of terms. We have a large armed force surrounding a city of several thousand people...ready to go house-to-house if necessary to find the killers of mercenaries. It'll surely be shoot first, question later. And we won't see what really happens as the media's eye will be kept far, far away.

This is now turning into a stand-off of wills between the opressed and the oppressors. Some will pooh-pooh that this is just a fringe or over-blown, but it's our young men and women who are stuck in this mess and paying a horrific price. Those inside Fallujah know what they're fighting for...their homes and lives...our kids only are following orders from those who don't have the balls to send their own kids or ever fought themselves.

I fear we may see another version of Tet...massive uprisings ruthlessly put down. The rest of the Arab world is carefully watching as well. Joe Biden had it right, for once, when he said this uprising could lead to our worst nightmares for the region.