In his 'defence' Calvin Gibbs compared taking body parts from his murder victims to taking the antlers from deer which he had shot. The attitude to the native population by Gibbs and his associates will be familiar to those who have followed events in Iraq, where Gibbs also boasted of killings. The treatment of the local population as 'untermenschen' and somehow not as human as Americans was not restricted to a few psychos either in Iraq or Afghanistan. Most of the (essentially racist) murder and massacre crimes by the US military and mercenaries/contractors in both countries have gone and will go unpunished.
Dialogue from the Deerhunter, early scenes:-
Nick: Shout Geronimo, Geronimo - It's the Screaming Eagles Airborne song. It's a gory road to glory But we're ready Here we go. Shout Geronimo. Screaming assholes. Geronimo, look out below. Fuckin' Assholes. Look out below - Let me be free. Let me be free. I don't remember the rest of the words.
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