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Originally posted by playa_playa
It's called a false conclusion or sometimes a hasty generalization.
I'm not understanding the point of this post...was it made to educated me that the No Gun Ri massacre was misconstrued (which proves ironic since the official statements from the Pentagon denied any deliberate killings and refused to apologize for the incident, calling it a "tragic occurence") by me? I only ask because you don't provide an explanation. I'm a bit confused.
But if you ARE saying that my views on the No Gun Ri incident is false, provide me some facts supporting your claim. I'll be happy to retract my position should you provide a valid and sufficient supporting data.
In any case, there were more mishaps in the world history caused by the United States than just this incident. Don't get me wrong, we, as a country, did many good things. But not everything we did was just. Even if the No Gun Ri incident is different than my construction of it (which I highly doubt), there are more than enough cases of wrongdoings we committed to prove my original point.
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The point of the post was to tell you that you don't have all the information on the No Gun Ri incident. I'm just asking what you would call yourself, accusing people of murdering innocent civilians when you don't know the full facts of the situation. And you bringing this up very soon after the History Channel aired their special about the Korean War Crimes, I really hope that isn't where you're basing this all off of, but it could be coincidental.
Anyway, let's get on to the points here. Making a very long story short, here it goes. The NKPA forces had dressed up like civilians until they got behind enemy lines, then performed guerilla operations on the US troops. In No Gun Ri, the US troops were returning fire, not opening fire. Once a civilian shoots a gun, they no longer are a civilian.
If you were fighting a war, and there had been many instances of the enemy dressing up like civilians and moving with a large group of civilians before they open fire on you. Then, you're watching a large group of civilians, and people started firing upon you. What would you do? Sit there and eat a lollipop?
The bottom line in there is no evidence that US soldiers fired delibertly on Korean refugees. On top of that, there is many reasons to believe that they didn't shoot on the refugees for no valid reason. Considering that you're sitting on your ass in a chair, and they were in the middle of war, it's also very hard to realize the state of mind they were in, and understand why they would do things that they do. You're making assumptions, essentially accusing men who defend your freedom of murder, when you know nothing about it.
Looks to me like you're passing your own judgement on people.