Ruthless butchers

Please take the time to read this:

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175644/tomgram%3A_nick_turse%2C_chuck_hagel_and_murder_in_vietnam/#more

And then think about the Indian Wars, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Pacific War in WWII, the Vietnam War, both Iraq Wars, and the Afghanistan War. A common thread is that our military forces always have been ruthless butchers. Not valiant heros - butchers.

Certainly there have been acts of heroism throughout, but they were vastly overwhelmed by the fact that we butchered people whose only crime was getting in our selfish way.