{"id":2005,"date":"2004-05-06T08:25:34","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T12:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/05\/06\/2005.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:46:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:46:04","slug":"who-do-you-trust-to-investigat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/05\/06\/who-do-you-trust-to-investigat\/","title":{"rendered":"Who do you trust to investigate allegations of atrocities?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger had completely forgotten Colin Powell&#8217;s role in My Lai. Well, that&#8217;s poorly phrased; Colin Powell had no role in the slaughter itself, but, if my recollection, Lexis-Nexis and Google have given me the correct picture, he was involved in the investigation afterwards. Or rather, he was asked to investigate allegations of American troops committing atrocities, and didn&#8217;t so much investigate as, well ... whitewash is an ugly word. Actually &#8216;whitewash&#8217; is quite a lovely word. Whitewash. It&#8217;s got a nifty sound. Coverup has a nice sound, too, and looks good on the page, although &#8216;complete balls leading to massive international scandal when the story gets out&#8217; both sounds and looks dreadful.\n<p>In fairness, I have no actual idea what happened, except that the memo he wrote did not recommend further investigation, and is widely quoted as containing this line: &#8220;In direct refutation of this portrayal is the fact that relations between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent.&#8221;\n<p>How are relations between American soldiers and the Iraqi people these days, Secretary Powell?\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Humble Blogger had completely forgotten Colin Powell\u2019s role in My Lai. Well, that\u2019s poorly phrased; Colin Powell had no role in the slaughter itself, but, if my recollection, Lexis-Nexis and Google have given me the correct picture, he was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17011,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/17011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}