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To: Dayuhan who wrote (98451)	5/18/2003 7:15:41 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Do you remember the James Burke historical "Connections" PBS series of the 70s/80s? For any primary responsibility, there are a few secondary responsibilities. For the secondary causes, there are several tertiary catalysts. It's like the Six Degree Kevin Bacon game of geo-political separation history. One could eventually convict pre-1602 France of today's Iraqi friendly-fire AA deaths. Should Burke re-start that series, this would be a most interesting analysis. "We see a bit of the same in Iraq, when we maintain that it isn’t our fault that civilians may have been killed by falling anti-aircraft ordinance. That to me is ridiculous. We put bombers over the city, we have to own up to responsibility for the consequences, no matter who actually fired the weapon that did the damage. If English civilians were killed by falling AA rounds during the blitz, the Nazis were as responsible for those deaths as they were for those caused by their bombs. It can be argued that those deaths were unavoidable collateral damage, and that the importance of the war made them necessary. It’s churlish to pretend we’re not responsible."

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