Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>> Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>> 
>>>So why don't Americans hate Americans who commit atrocities, demanding the
>>>same be done to them as those darn Japs? (eg, recall handling of My Lai
>>>Massacre)
>> 
>> Speaking of that, do you know HOW My Lai was stopped? If so, how does
>> that square with your statement above?

> My Lai was stopped?

Yes.

> Do you mean it was stopped in the same way that Nanking was stopped?

"Hugh Thompson, by now almost frantic, saw bodies in the ditch,
including a few people who were still alive.  He landed his helicopter
and told Calley to hold his men there while he evacuated the civilians.
Thompson told his helicopter crew chief to "open up on the Americans" if
they fired at the civilians.  He put himself between Calley's men and
the Vietnamese."

I am unaware of Japanese troops putting a stop to their fellow troops'
killings.

>> And what did Japan do following Nanking?

> Followed the script. Applaud the courage of the perpetrators, 
> congratulate the units involved, and attack the patriotism of those who 
> ask inconvenient questions.

No, they instituted the comfort women program.

> When thinking of responses to Nanjing, No 
> Gun Ri, My Lai/Co Luy/My Khe, Derry, or Srebrenica & Dvor etc, I wonder 
> if there is a universal "ready to use" template.

Apparently not.

Mike