From: Kai Becker (kmb@kai-m-becker.de)
Date: Mon Apr 08 2002 - 13:02:27 MDT
Am Montag, 8. April 2002 17:56 schrieb Mike Lorrey:
> > > The current conflict is between civilization itself and ignorant
> > > darkness. Spectators are not allowed.
> > Whos civilization exactly?
> Anybody who thinks that targeting and killing civilians specifically is
> NOT an acceptable tactic of a conflict.
Oh, would you please go and tell this the military officers of various
armies, who used terror bombings against civilians? The German Wehrmacht,
"Bomber Harris", US airforce spraying biocides in Vietnam, Pol Pots killing
fields and countless other slayings in Asia and Africa? Do you really think
that _any_ "civilized" country, cornered in a brutal conflict, would
refrain from using this last instrument? Are the families of the Palestine
leaders, killed by Israelian missiles, no civilians? What is "collateral
damage", after all, but calculated killed civilians? There is no
"civilization" in war.
Kai
-- == Kai M. Becker == kmb@kai-m-becker.de == Bremen, Germany == "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"
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