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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (48526)	10/1/2002 8:08:05 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Hi Hawkmoon; Re: "Before Guernica, it was unthinkable for civilians to be directly targeted as a deliberate terror campaign." I disagree. History is replete with examples of civilians being targeted for deliberate attacks. Hell, our own Civil war saw civilian property deliberately destroyed, which was probably described by the recipients as "terror". Examples of civilian massacres immediately preceding WW2 that immediately come to mind would be the Armenians in Turkey, and the Boxer Rebellion. I'm not looking for excuses for Hitler, but the fact is that in WW1 both the Allies and the Germans had extensive programs of bombing against each other that were fairly indiscriminate, and certainly the Allies saw nothing wrong with starving the German civilians into surrender with a blockade. Civilians have always been fair game in full scale wars. This fact dates back to prehistory. -- Carl

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