Dick Earley	Sheila Twain
Noted author on Vietnam	Investigative reporter

 

Twain discusses Phoenix Project

TWAIN: ---- " You were a Capt in Vietnam in charge of the Phoenix Project in the central highlands of Vietnam ? "

EARLEY: ---- " That’s correct "

TWAIN: ---- " The Phoenix Project’s goal was to disable the Vietnamese civilians who supported the Viet Cong ? "

EARLEY: ---- " I can’t discuss these matters for security purposes "

 

Twain moves on to the Iraqi prison scandal

TWAIN: ---- " Mr. Earley - What are your thoughts on the female private interrogator in the pictures? "

EARLEY: ---- " The object of the interrogation was to humiliate the prisoners and break them.  This has been done since time immemorial.  The great, crass stupidity was the taking of pictures.  I was against the invasion of Iraq, but I understand that if American lives are at stake, methods must be used to get this information.   The American public simply does not know or wish to know this."

TWAIN: ----- " Do you think her superiors are responsible "

EARLEY: ---- " Superiors at all time must bear responsibility.  I had a very nasty time in Vietnam when I was going to be hanged when somebody above me lost his guts.  I have great sympathy for those on the bottom. "

TWAIN: ----- " Should civilian companies hire Israeli interrogators at this Iraq prison ? " "

EARLEY: ---- " Absolutely not.   Nothing could inflame Arab opinion more than this.  Americans generally are not very good at interrogation as we are too much in a hurry.  I would bet most of those young MP’s got nothing useful.   I suspect we will have to get much better.   Arab terror will soon come to these shores.   We have an idiotic policy in the Middle East to thank for much of this.

 

Earley on Jewish Medal of Honor legislation

TWAIN: --- " " I see there has been a law passed giving Jewish people the Medal of honor because they were discriminated against - Are you in favor of it "

EARLEY: ----" I strongly feel the role of Jews in American wars must be public knowledge.  Their refusal to fight and endanger themselves while calling others vile names should be widely known.  I must assume great lies will be told by them and their friends. 

The most recent example of reluctance of Jews to bear arms came in the following story.  Col. Michelle Ross, director of the Medical Chemical Defense Research Program for the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, was chosen as one of Jewish Woman magazine's 10 Women to Watch for 2002.  For Ross, one benefit in winning the award is the insight it gives the Jewish community into the Department of Defense--and vice versa.   “Historically, Jews make up a very small minority in the DoD, so the visibility works both ways," she said. In fact, according to the Army Chief of Chaplains Office, 0.3 percent or 1,488 soldiers self identify themselves as being Jewish on their dog tags.  This is when Jews are slightly more than 2% of the American population.  Other Americans are fighting at a rate some 6 to 7 times that of Jews.  http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/standard/7_...ws/20210-1.html

 

 

Jewish Media puts spotlight on any participation by Jews

 

	When necessary, Jews will deliberately overemphasize their participation in American wars.    For example the death of Lieutenant Bernstein appeared on the front page of New York Times, Nov 2, 2002  with picture of his burial at West Point.  Common Dreams
With respect and appreciation for his sacrifice an intelligent observer must ask why his death was singled out, most especially after reading of the thoughts of many of the long time columnists of that newspaper.

These are the people like Lewis, Safire, Rosenthal and Friedman who presently champion American intervention all over the globe to set the world right.  They caustically comment on the reluctance of the military to suffer casualties and insinuate it is a lack of manhood.

They know nobody in the military, and they would be the first to back out when the blood started to flow or, more accurately, if chances would be that the blood would be of one of their own.

 

Friedman had compared American concern by high ranking officers for troops unfavorably with the French who did not seem to care for their military deaths.   The French seemed to be far more concerned with a death in the bicycle race, the Tour de France.  That death was on the front pages while deaths of French troops in Bosnia were barely mentioned, and the names of the dead soldiers not at all. 

 

Friedman went so far to quote Johns Hopkins Professor Michael Mandelbaum on American reluctance.[1]   It must be noted that Mandelbaum was a draft-dodging contemporary of Bill Clinton at Oxford.  Safire even has rebuked Colin Powell who cautioned against American involvement in the Balkans.[2]