Rape's Defenders
In his recent visit to Japan, President Clinton was still trying to undo the foreign-policy damage from the rape of a 12-year-old girl on Okinawa by two U.S. Marines and a sailor. That case--like the Tailhook scandal--was treated as an aberration. But Okinawa's is just one in a staggering number of rape cases among U.S. military personnel, and part of a pattern of cover-up involving officials ranging from local base commanders to the Pentagon's allies in Congress.
We owe exposure of this human-rights scandal not to The New York Times or 60 Minutes but to the Dayton, Ohio, Daily News, hometown paper to the same Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the Administration brokered the Bosnian partition. …
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