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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
AMAT 301.11+6.9%Jan 9 9:30 AM EST
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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (66059)9/19/2002 2:11:30 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
OT politics:

re: "If they kill known terrorists, OK. If they harm civilians, then it is wrong". The problem is, no army fighting a guerrila opponent, has ever been able to do one without the other. The very essense of guerrila strategy, is to hide invisibly within a sympathetic civilian population, and to blur the distinction between civilian and military.

The historical record shows that the only successful wars against guerrila armies, have involved massive civilian "collateral damage". Andrew Jackson's ethnic cleansing campaign in Mississippi, almost 200 years ago. The Brits starving the Boers in concentration camps a century ago. And so on. A decision not to allow civilian deaths, is a decision to lose the war.
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