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To: Bilow who wrote (1319)	10/20/2002 2:09:47 AM
From: Kenneth Kirk	Respond to of 2746

Killing is killing, indeed. Killing is not necessarily murder. War is hell, but it's worse when the military forces aren't controlled by strict guidelines of conduct. Ask anyone who has been in Kosova in the last decade. Or Berlin in 1945. Or in many African wars. There is an understanding -- a code -- in modern civilized armies that war may be necessary, but you don't make it any worse than it has to be. You shoot an enemy soldier holding his gun because it is necessary. You don't shoot an unarmed civilian, or kill a soldier who is trying to surrender, because it isn't. It does matter. That kind of attitude is not only morally defensible, it is what keeps the number of atrocities to a minimum. When terrorists intentionally kill civilians, it should be condemned, clearly and unmistakably. It is not war, and it is not the moral equivalent thereof.