At Delaware Watch , Dana draws our attention to a post from CommonDreams.org (not a place I would have gone without his prompting, I admit) regarding US military atrocities in the Korean War. Everybody--every American should read this post, now . Here's what Dana says: This can't be true because everything the US does is good by definition. Why, it's tautological: the USA equals good. The US committed war crimes? That can't be. Only the enemies of the US commit war crimes because the US says so and as we all know, the US never lies. He's right, but I think he misses the point--partly. Wars--no matter who fights them--are the repository of murder, mayhem, and atrocity. A Just War is at least theoretically possible, a Good War in the sense of honorable conflict without barbarism is simply not possible . It hasn't been possible in any war America has ever fought. What is thoroughly reprehensible is that American foreign policy makers have internalized a lesson...