I first saw this today after listening to the podcast. I am still somewhat suffering just from the utter horror of this video, so please bear in mind this is not something to watch casually. I still need to process how to respond, other than holy fuck, the US military is pure evil
good article (although written by NJR, a liberal) on how normalized, and even incentivized, murdering and raping civilians was: What We Did
what happened at My Lai was routine
Kill Anything That Moves will fuck you up. I couldn't finish it, shit was so horrific. The ROE pretty much gave the green light to kill anybody the troops came into contact with.