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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (84782)	3/21/2003 8:38:45 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Jacob, I understand the point u're making, but its historical, not current, and we can not change history. I personally am happy with the concept that terrorism is intentional attack with civilians as casualties, war is intentional attack on an organized army of a state.

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (84782)	3/22/2003 7:51:20 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Remember I was telling you how the lawyers now have to approve targets prior to bombing, due to the US signing onto an international treaty pertaining to human rights? This treaty was drafted after WWII because of the wide spread understanding that some things that were done during WWII were wrong and should not be done again. The world is a different place now than it was in 1945. Our consciences have evolved. Medical ethics have improved quite a bit since the days when the Nazis and the Japanese experimented on prisoners, wouldn't you say? And the US experiments at Tuskegee? We now know that some things that were widely accepted were morally wrong, and we move on. Targetting civilians is one of the things that we now widely believe to be morally wrong and unacceptable. It is unjust. We are talking about fighting a just war. A true pacifist doesn't believe that any war is just, of course, but the rest of us try to cobble together something that is more advanced than disemboweling noncombantants and dashing babies' brains out on the nearest wall.