It has been reported by several sources that William Calley recently said: "There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai. I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, for the American soldiers involved and their families."

I have mixed feelings about William Calley. While I deplore what he did, the case could also be made, as I have done, that pilots who bombed Vietnam—like John McCain, who flew 23 bombing missions—are also war criminals. And then there is World War II—the Good War. General Curtis LeMay boasted that he "scorched and boiled and baked to death" more than 200,000 Japanese. If that doesn't make one a war criminal then there are no war criminals.