"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Dave Hall wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:16:07 -0500, DSK wrote:



But the point stands- the U.S. military has no interest in slaughtering
hapless civilians.



It warms my heart to hear you say that.


Dave



Dresden, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, My Lai, Kent State...

No interest in slaughtering innocent civilians, eh?

Kent State is not the same as Nagasaki, Hiroshima, or Dresden, where tens of
thousands (even hundreds of thousands) were killed. In those three cities,
we*did* intentionally target civilian populations in order to break their
morale...and it worked.

As I've said before, you should not go to war unless you're willing to take
it to the worst extremes. In the wars which we have won, we certainly can
not claim the moral high ground. In the wars in which we *did* try to take
the moral high ground, we lost. Unfortunately, in this war on terror, we
*are* taking the moral high ground...and it's costing us the lives of
hundreds of American troops. We'll still prevail. But our guys are
needlessly getting killed because liberalism and political correctness are
handcuffing our troops.

If history has taught us anything, it that the winning side gets to define
what is moral and what is a war crime.