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Politics : Stop the War!
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To: BubbaFred who wrote (3175)3/26/2003 2:39:07 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer  Read Replies (1) of 21614
 
Wars today have a much greater economic impact on civilians than in the 19th and early 20th century. Even if civilians were targeted in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the scale of World War II battles made it impossible for civilians to avoid harm, whether from conventional weapons or weapons of mass destruction.

The inescapable fact of war in the 21st century is that EVERYONE, whether in the country being attacked or the country doing the attacking, is affected economically, if not physically. To say that a war is planned to avoid civilian casualties is an oxymoron. A plan may MINIMIZE civilian casualties but no plan can avoid them. Painting the U.S. as a benevolent invader has simply no realistic foundation.

As I've said many times before, there is a better, cheaper way of getting the job done. War is chosen by the current administration because it has no experience doing anything else and it thinks this will give it more votes in 2004.

Art
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