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<Deleted> | <Deleted> | 2007-07-10 16:17:38 |
| Pretending you didn't mention the Nazis — shocking |
by Esteis |
2007-07-10 15:23:48 |
article. But I find it hard to believe they're all like that — to make up my mind, I'd want to see all 50 interviews in their entirety.
I do believe that 50 veterans is a large enough sample to make general statements, assuming it's sufficiently random. But it's too easy for such articles to cherry-pick from such interviews.
Mind you: I still do believe that those soldiers acted like that. And I don't believe they're the only ones. It's easy to fall into such patterns — the banality of evil, as someone called it. [1] I'm just not sure that this is widespread enough to paint the entire US presence there with that brush.
[1] Yes, I know where that quotation comes from. Please don't go Godwin on me — if it makes you feel better, pretend that the observation was made in re the Stanford prison experiment. I'm comparing the pattern, and acknowledging that the scale is incomparable. There. |
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