Tuesday is Anguilla Day here, but Monday is Memorial Day in the States, and a sad one. Some of our Staff are old enough to remember the Vietnam War, and the awful massacre at My Lai. Today, the TV news is reporting that there was a mass civilian slaughter by U.S. troops at Haditha, in Iraq. Those who remember the aftermath of My Lai recall the rather stupid and confused officer blamed. It is not hard to understand how such things happen. You are a soldier on duty; your buddy is killed, and killed from afar without provocation. You go to the house that may have sheltered the terrorist killer, and, in a fury, you shoot everybody, young and old. It can be understood, but it is awful. And alas, it follows what even President Bush now says was a huge mistake, and that is the all but incredible shame at Abu Ghraib prison. Is this America, the hope of civilization? Sad, sad.

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