The Lessons of My Lai...

...appear to have been forgotten, along with all the other lessons of the Viet Nam War.

Residents of Haditha, 140 miles west of Baghdad, told The Associated Press that American troops entered homes and shot dead 15 members of two families, including a 3-year-old girl, after a roadside bomb killed a U.S. Marine.

Revenge killings. More here.

Santanyana was right.