Reply #50: Indeed, Ma'am [View All]

[The Magistrate]

That first sentence is a masterpiece of art which, when disentangled, amounts to a claim that denial of accusation is an assertion of its truth. A question, is your goal to normalize relations for profit? is answered, no, my goal is to account for missing men, and this is turned by the form of the sentence somehow into a declaration that the goal was indeed to normalize relations for profit. That little information about missing men has emerged in subsequent years is no real surprise; the fact is, no one knows what happened to them, and that is perfectly normal in war, even war fought in well settled areas. There are still un-identified corpses discovered in quantity in Europe from the Great War as farmers plow and construction proceeds, in areas that were settled then, and have remained settled continuously since. The idea that all missing U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam will ever be accounted for is nonsense, and the idea that all, or even many, missing men were prisoners kept by the North Vietnamese is merely a cruel hoax. The comment from Sen. Kerry's campaign is perfectly accurate; that investigation was indeed the most exhaustive such attempt in the history of warfare, and that it fell short of perfection ought not to surprise or discomfit anyone.

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