The Good Guys: My Lai Massacre, Vietnam
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The Secret of the Blockade
Official army policy, the methodology for which the war was going to be fought, virtually guaranteed that war crimes would start taking place. The secretary of defense, robert macnamara, was a numbers guy. He had initially served under president john f. Kennedy in the early sixties. It was macnamera who had conceived of the blockade that eventually averted the 19 62 cuban missile crisis. An macnamara was a straight arrow with a demeanor as rigid as his perfectly parted, slicked back hair.
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