🧵 Sounds familiar, a pattern:
> A second theme that echoed through the press was that any atrocities committed in the Philippines had been aberrations. They were “deplorable,” the St. Paul Pioneer Press conceded, but had “no bearing on fundamental questions of national policy.” The New York Tribune said only a few soldiers were guilty and “the penalty must fall not upon the policy, but upon those men.”

#AnAberation #BadApples #MyLaiPattern #MilitaryCoverUpPattern