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Originally Posted by Botnst
My fellow Jew, Peragro, didn't suggest in any way that villages were not destroyed: He said Arnett made-up that infamous line about destroying it to save it.
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I was going to say exactly that, but you beat me to it.
As long as we're on the subject. The phrase "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" is one of the favorite lines used by progressives to illustrate US senseless brutality. In fact, my non-jewish friend Cmacadoodledoo has done so here on occasion. It's a good example of how anti-US soldier propaganda takes hold and never lets go.
The quote came from the town Ban Tre which was destroyed by the North Vietnamese. Interviews with American servicemen after the destruction resulted in quotes such as "it's a shame the town was destroyed". Peter Arnett came up with the quote as he did with the fabrications in the Tailwind story later on and then again in Iraq when he was working for the Iraqi army.