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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (132112)	5/7/2004 6:59:34 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (3) of 281500

I recall American reluctance to fly on runs that firebombed Dresden and Hamburg, then later they killed over 100,000 in the same kinds of raids over Tokyo. Four years of war changed things. In WWI they had a Christmas Truce and the trench warriors fraternized to the horror of their commanders. No more truce, no more civilized war. It (proper conduct) would get sorted out AFTER the fact. While it is important to punish everyone responsible for the outrages at Abu Ghraib, the only effective way to stop the corrupting influences of war is to achieve victory. www.belmontclub.com It was a fairly common explanation that the Japanese tortured more than most soldiers because physical punishment was a top-down feature of their conduct. Officers could beat underlings and underlings could beat prisoners....

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