From a Christian newsletter I receive:
“In March of 1968 the United States Army saw fit to send me to serve my country in Vietnam. I had received some of the best military training in the world and the powers that be said I was ready to go into battle. In my preparation for ‘overseas’ duty the Army taught me that as a soldier of the United States I was basically an ambassador representing the United States and I need to conduct myself accordingly.”
Then follows his discussion of a Christian as an ambassador. But is this the best illustration of an ambassador that he could come up with? U.S. soldiers who went to Vietnam were anything but ambassadors. They did not serve America in Vietnam. They killed, poisoned, raped, beat, tortured, burned, mutilated, abused, drowned, and sexually exploited the Vietnamese. See my review here of Nick Turse’s Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
9:14 am on July 20, 2014
