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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (788)	12/19/2002 12:45:25 PM
From: William B. Kohn	Respond to of 15987

in all fairness, I cannot accept that someone attempts to constantly argue that anything done by Western powers in self defense is criminal, while acts of horror perpretated by Arabs, Asians, Africans seems to be quite ok. You make excuses for the AL Queda, the Taliban, the Palestinians, and condemn the US constantly. Why the double standard. Once again I implore you to find examples of other nations who's actions in war time are as admirable as the US. Have their been mistakes, sure, but on the whole you don't see us promise to protect people from execution and walk away like the Dutch, do you. It's a cruel world, I don't believe the US should be held to any double standards, something you are quite willing to do, over and over again!

To: zonder who wrote (788)	12/19/2002 12:49:35 PM
From: mistermj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

No caveat needed.Its spelled out in plain black and white. >>or devastation not justified by military necessity;<< We can argue this point all day.IMO,Truman made the most humane choice possible under extraordinary conditions. >>(b) War Crimes: namely, violations of the laws or customs of war. Such violations shall include, but not be limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity;<<