THE TROOPS USED TO BE HEROES. Then the media made them victims. Now it’s making them evil, like the hordes of “Jenjis Khan.” This will make betraying them more palatable.
We’ve seen this pattern before.
UPDATE: Reader Wright Steenrod emails: “Can you imagine the New Republic, of all magazines, writing a German occupation story in WWII and focusing the actions of some sick soldiers and not focusing of the existence of a mass grave of Jewish children?”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Like the “Jenjis Khan” stuff, these reports appear to have a rather shaky foundation.