Comments on: It was much easier to get a message to the rear than it was to get one carried forward https://www.isegoria.net/2020/08/it-was-much-easier-to-get-a-message-to-the-rear-than-it-was-to-get-one-carried-forward/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:10:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Adar https://www.isegoria.net/2020/08/it-was-much-easier-to-get-a-message-to-the-rear-than-it-was-to-get-one-carried-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-3232543 Adar Wed, 05 Aug 2020 01:39:52 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=46882#comment-3232543 “Well then, the US Army machine-gunning masses of Korean refugees was not the war crime we were led to believe. The war crime was North Korea concealing soldiers among those refugees!”

Only those machine-gunned who, when approaching a MP checkpoint, attempted to bypass it by running into a rice paddy on either side of a road. Korean women included those who did not want to be frisked by an American.

]]> By: Harry Jones https://www.isegoria.net/2020/08/it-was-much-easier-to-get-a-message-to-the-rear-than-it-was-to-get-one-carried-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-3232483 Harry Jones Tue, 04 Aug 2020 23:53:25 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=46882#comment-3232483 The whole notion of a war crime seems a bit incoherent to me. War is a breakdown of law and order resulting from a crisis of legitimacy. There is no applicable authority by which we can say something is or is not a crime, and no way of arresting and prosecuting the perps if we did.

When the war is over, the victors can retroactively declare anything they like to have been a war crime. But that’s after the fact.

Sometimes both sides agree on certain moral or “legal” principles of war. When this happens, there could hypothetically be acts that all concerned recognize at the time as war crimes. But if one side decides to commit such acts anyway, what are you going to do about it?

The only real war crime is losing the war. So says history.

]]> By: Dave https://www.isegoria.net/2020/08/it-was-much-easier-to-get-a-message-to-the-rear-than-it-was-to-get-one-carried-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-3232153 Dave Tue, 04 Aug 2020 16:25:21 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=46882#comment-3232153 Well then, the US Army machine-gunning masses of Korean refugees was not the war crime we were led to believe. The war crime was North Korea concealing soldiers among those refugees!

]]> By: Adar https://www.isegoria.net/2020/08/it-was-much-easier-to-get-a-message-to-the-rear-than-it-was-to-get-one-carried-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-3232143 Adar Tue, 04 Aug 2020 14:43:37 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=46882#comment-3232143 “Bill Dean wanted to see close up just what kind of fighting cat the North Korean was.”

At that exact moment the North Korean light infantry were probably the best in the world. Well-trained, combat experienced, Stalingrad and the Chinese Civil War. Fanatics almost and very resolute.

North Koreans, their four man teams of infiltrators in civilian dress, each possessing a dagger, handgun, and hand grenades, posed a significant challenge for the U.S. Army at the start of the war. Mix in with civilian refugee columns during the day time, fight as guerrillas at night.

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