From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 08:15:19 MST
"Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> Wrote:
> I don't like "betting" with peoples lives.
It doesn't matter if you like it or not you do it, you play games with other
peoples life every day, I do too, everybody does. Things do not become more
gentlemanly in war.
> Nor do I like authorizing assassinations without any evidence.
Straw man, only a fool would want to assassinate somebody without some
reason to think it was a good idea.
> In this case, we killed extraneous people
No not "people", one person, and he was almost certainly not extraneous but
guilty as hell.
>to get the one
Five.
> I sure hope that we don't keep up that ratio on every
> secret US assassination.
What are you talking about? I would be absolutely delighted if the USA does
half as well in future assassinations, but some thing just have to be done.
> If our soldiers can't kill the enemy without killing innocents, I'd
> say get better intelligence and planning.
If you expect to fight a war without killing any innocents, zero, not one,
then you are living in a dream world.
> If we are willing to kill unrelated innocents to try to win
> our cause against the enemy, how is that different from
> the terrorists?
The USA does everything it can think of to keep the number of innocents hurt
to a minimum and so far has been extraordinarily successful; the terrorists
do everything they can think of to keep the number of innocents hurt to a
maximum and so far have been extraordinarily successful.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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