We have paid the salaries of South Koreans. Thais and others. failing to connect this with our own history antipathy to the concept of the British hiring the hated Hessians to put down our own revolution against the British Crown. Less than 25 years after Nuremberg. where we insisted that the wanton destruction of villages and the forced relocation of civilians should be considered war crimes against humanity. we adopted the same sort of tactics in Vietnam. forcing Vietnamese peasants to leave the villages and farmlands where they had lived for generations. and then destroying the villages themselves. as well as any of the inhabitants who might escape from our refugee centers and return to their home areas. I was personally advised by a top CORDs official. while in Vietnam a year ago. that in a single province. Quang Nam.