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To: tejek who wrote (145199)	4/16/2002 5:56:06 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572711

Your distinction between the two is so subtle that I don't see it Its not subtle at all. If I am driving in a legal and reasonably safe manner, and then someone jumps out from behind a bush and I hit them and they die it is an accident. If someone walks down the street and I aim my car at them and run them over and they die, it is murder. The distinction in my earlier statement is almost exactly the same as the distinction between the car accident and the vehicular homicide. Tim

To: tejek who wrote (145199)	4/16/2002 6:07:22 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1572711

I don't think it made the Afghan civilians feel any better that they weren't the targets and so I don't think they felt any less terror in the bombing of Afghanistan than the Germans did in the bombing of Dresden. I would have felt a lot less terror living in an Afghan city or village when we started the bombing then I would have felt if I was living in Dresden when it was firebombed. The huge firestorms in Dresden (and even more extensive ones in Tokyo later on) produced results that are comparable to what you would get from a low yield nuke. A big chunk of Dresden's population died. Maybe 1/1000 of one percent of the civilian population of Afghanistan was killed by American bombing. A larger percentage of Americans die each year from car accidents. The total number of civilian deaths from American bombing might not have been a lot higher then the total number of deaths from lightning strikes in the US since 2000. Tim