Yesterday the convicted mass murderer William Calley expressed regret about his role in the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam where at least 500 people died. Then a lieutenant in the US army he was court martialled and sentenced to life in prison only to be pardoned after three years by Richard 'I am not a crook' Nixon. Compare that to the treatment meted out to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay where prisoners, some as young as 16 years, are being routinely tortured. These were people picked up in Afghanistan, their offence being trying to kill American troops. The problem is that Afghans have every moral, legal and God given right to try to kill Americans who are the invaders raping their motherland. Every invader has labelled freedom fighters as terrorists so as to be able to torture and slaughter them. The British did it in India, the Russians did it in Afghanistan and the Americans have been doing it in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. This tactic has failed repeatedly and will fail again unless the Americans adopt the methods used by the Chinese in Tibet. Occupy the land by force, ban foreign reporters, reduce the locals to minority by transferring millions of Han chinese and kill any Tibetan who dares to raise is eyes let alone his voice. Trouble is Americans are prone to lecture others about human rights and do not have millions of Chinese cockroaches to occupy Afghanistan. This could turn out to be Obama's Vietnam.