"It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer." ~ Gore Vidal
How true those words, considering the French (and many others) had suffered terribly themselves at the hand of the enemy less than 20 years prior during WWII, and not 50 years after WWI opened the world to the extreme brutality of modern warfare.
Yet how can one be swayed to commit such terrible, inhumane acts, sometimes easily too?
It is the subject of this week's article over on The Flat Land That Is Mine: From False Accusations During WWI to Real Atrocities.
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