gold,
All the propaganda about the evil Serbs just
reminds me how we used to call the Vietnamese
"Godless Communists" that were "impervious" to
human suffering. Of course, that was the just-
ifacation we needed to start bombing Hanoi. Ya
got to make your enemy inhuman before you kill
them otherwise it doesn't sound right. Probably
those "mass graves" are where they are putting
the bodies of the KLA soldiers and sypathizers
that the JNA has killed in the war. The US is
estimated to have killed over 1 million Vietnamese
from 1965 to 1975 in order to save them from the
evils of Communism. Something I find unfortunate
is that this whole warfare thing is turning more
and more upon civilians as targets. Every war in
this century has had a greater percentage of
civilian casualties than the last. Finally, it
appeared that "smart weapons" had reduced this
trend during the Gulf War, in that the great majority
of casualties were military, not civilian. However,
the subsequent economic sanctions and collateral damage
actually resulted in about 1 million deaths of Iraqi
civilians due to damage to water treatment plants,
lack of food, medicine, and sewage treatment. It
seems that the Gulf War still resulted in about 10
times as many civilians being killed as military
personnel. This trend is not changing. It seems that
more and more, war is a problem for the non combatants,
not just the military. So much for "smart weapons".
-John
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