Check out my latest post on the Huffington Post blog: it’s about “fragging,” a practice much in evidence during the Vietnam era when hundreds of American military officers were killed by their own soldiers — and, no, we aren’t talking about “friendly fire” here. Hand-grenades were the favored mode of execution, a most unfriendly way to die.
I have to say that I’ll be absolutely shocked and, yes, surprised if this does indeed turn out to be a case of fragging. After all, these soldiers are volunteer, unlike the conscripts forced to fight the Vietnam war. Could it be that they’re discovering that, as in Vietnam, we have no business being over there — and are now beginning to take out their anger at being bamboozled into volunteering on their officers?
