Quote Originally Posted by Bob's World View Post
... we could rationalize that we were "liberators"; perhaps even up to about 1950.
No, it was earlier than that, it was in 1947 with the Truman Doctrine for Greece that these moral dilemmas began. If we take sides in a messy overseas war and train, arm and advise one side instead of the other it raises difficult questions. Are we morally complicit if the side we support lines up the prisoners it has taken and blows them away? Does it matter if U.S. advisors are present at the time? Should anyone give a damn? Which is more important, winning the war or morality in the abstract?