-- On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 08:58:30AM -0800, jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
What matters is what those one kills are doing. British soldiers [in the American revolutionary war] were repressing colonials. The guys in the trade towers were not doing anything to Muslims.
On 28 Oct 2001, at 11:08, Mark Henderson wrote:
So what about all the civilians in Afghanistan who are being killed by American and British bombs.
Collateral damage. We are not targeting them. Analogously, if someone grabs a human shield, and starts shooting at me, I am entitled to shoot back, and if the shield gets it, his blood is on the head of the guy who grabbed him, not my head.
I'll end this with a pointer to a well written insightful article about "the war" - http://www.zmag.org/roywarpeace.htm
I am unimpressed with lectures on morality given by those who worked for the KGB against their countrymen. http://www.zmag.org are bunch of commies who have never found fault with any mass murderer, only those who defend themselves against mass murder, never opposed any totalitarian tyrant, only those who make revolution against tyrants. I went to their web page. The second person on the masthead was John Pilger, who used to be a KGB agent. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG qRNAZW+vCuwdc0Kqlz8Gg3RB7nDgLhw/Z8XamF3c 4jI82HK0DObtBJr1S9eLXEyDwZv3hwadUWgYGTiv7 --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG tGvHji52Za1V9gi3QXxpSqnJbFedxtqYFq8j2q7f 4kyQHCygwaj6X4bfNP1jrrdEHuAT3CKLf0pihNVBh