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“Mealy,” a former Vietcong agent in the Mekong Delta. “Children were trained,” said Mealy, “to throw grenades, not only for the terror factor, but so the government or American soldiers would have to shoot them. Then the Americans feel very ashamed. And they blame themselves and call their soldiers war criminals.” And it worked.
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
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