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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (135842)6/6/2004 6:46:58 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I think the answer to reconciling your view on this, and the opposite view of this, lies in how one views the words "try not to." While I realize, post Clinton, that looking into the meaning of words is very suspect, it still provides valuable clues to the thought process of the person using the words. When a person says "the US tries not to kill civilians" what that person might mean is that the US does not have the killing of civilians uppermost in its collective mind as it storms into their country and accidentally kills them in droves. Each and every dead civilian can rest calmly for eternity knowing that their demise was not the mission of the US, but simply an accidental bi-product. I am sure the dead rest much more easily knowing that their death was simply a mistake, rather than something personal and intentional, don't you?

:-)

I joke gently with you about this, for even though it is a sad thing, there is always humor in the human condition, and the way those stuck in the human condition flounder about.
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