Edward, the difference between Mai Lai and "obliging" enemy soldiers is that Mai Lai were women, children and elderly... Not soldiers at all, whether wounded or not.
Ron, that may be what you were told, but I have a hard time believing that, especially from a full bird colonel IMO. And under the same pretext, do the SS soldiers of the TV suffer from PTSD if they gassed or shot hundreds of thousands, or not because they viewed them as not human? Evil as it may be, that's what I would call politically reliable. Same goes for the Soviet NKVD side.
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