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G-man, you won't find that kind of racial de-humanization in the modern army.
Partly because the current generation of soldiers is not quite as ready, as GI-era society was, to buy into racial stereotypes. Partly because it is more accurate to say that we are liberating these people and not defeating them, and so it is in our interests to respect them. Partly because it's been five generations since the US was attacked on its own territory by a culture all of one race that had a racial hatred of the US.
But mostly because, unlike those previous armies, today you'd be just as likely to find a Korean serving with you.
Why might help to explain how Gen. Colin Powell reached the highest levels of our government via the military route.
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