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Originally Posted by Cybermat47
Yes... and?
It doesn't matter how they're treated by their countries afterwards. What matters is that they committed war crimes in the first place.
And by the way, Nazis have been prosecuted and imprisoned in Germany for several decades now.
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My point is that any army ever created is going to have an element who will commit war crimes. The difference is how these actions are treated. Are they outlawed or are they encouraged? That is the measure of any human society.
So yeah I think the far more extensive and deliberate attacks upon civilians by the VC deserve mention in a discussion about My Lai.