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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (42078)	1/8/2002 5:29:07 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Very good points. Besides, is the person making gatling guns purely a civilian? Is the mother who teaches her child to embrace the values of bushido entirely blameless? From one perspective, even the military are not "blamed" for doing their duty, which is why we have rules of humane treatment for those who are captured. I would not like to say that a 16 year old male conscripted for the Home Army was much more guilty than anyone else in the situation, but he may have to be killed. I supported the Gulf War, but I mourned those Iraqi conscripts who were so easily crushed by tanks. Although there is reason for a residual concern for non- combatants, I am not keen to say that an Iowa boy pulled off the farm, with a murky idea of the geopolitics of the situation, is more worthy of being killed. Nor do I think that killing civilians because of the fierceness of the invasion would be superior to killing them by a bomb. In the end, concern for non- combatants is only one consideration, and can easily be vitiated by the reality that a lot of them will die anyway......