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Paul Pollitt was close to the mark (“Netanyahu’s strategy like U.S. in Vietnam,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, Nov. 28) when he described “dropping 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated refugee camps” as “similar to our policy in Vietnam.”
We did not bomb refugee camps, but the overkill and needless deaths that tactics like carpet-bombing produced (“half the population was V.C., but nobody knew which half”) developed from an attitude of, “So why not bomb everybody?”
It’s what the Israelis appear to be doing now in Gaza against Hamas.
Pollitt did leave out a very popular phrase at the time: “Sometimes you have to destroy the village in order to save it.”
Chip Davey
Downtown Honolulu
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