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2:18 PM, Mar 5, 2008 • By MICHAEL GOLDFARB

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From the Atlantic's new Current:

U.S. military personnel have been raping Okinawans for the last 60-plus years.

The author does concede that "the overwhelming majority of U.S. military personnel aren't sociopaths." At least not before they get deployed to a war zone, after which they become prone to puppy killing, murder, and suicide. One might add that journalists have been smearing the military for 60-plus years, but the overwhelming majority of them support the troops. Or so I'm told.

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