To many of us. it may be a saga of brave battles. To Asianseven to Asians sympathetic to our countryit is often seen as a saga of disruption of an ageold cultural tapestry. It is a saga recently marked by bombing in Vietnam and Laos which has ravaged two cultures. And everywhere the military osmosis spreads. there stretches a long. bedraggled wake of refugees. who walk also under a flag of military exigency. Combatants. particularly when insulated in airplanes far above the lands they attack. may feel a moral exemption. Eluding Asian artillery. they may feel they escape Asian judgmentand nemesis.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about how Asians view American military actions.