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To: skinowski who wrote (185640)	11/8/2006 1:46:16 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793808

What can you do? Kill their leadership, and guaranteed the day after the attack no nation on earth would be giving them money anymore. It would be "Hamas who?"

To: skinowski who wrote (185640)	11/8/2006 2:50:02 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793808

I know there is supposed to be a difference between civilians and soldiers. But when humans are merely state serfs, and by definition just part of the state, and what's more said serfs vote for that state and voluntarily pay for said state and what's more support said state's ideology, such as "Kill all Jews" or "Death to America and Americans", then it seems to be creating a difference when there isn't much of one. Not everyone agrees with the state and serfdom. That's bad luck for them - bad luck for the losers in democracy [and any state] is normal. That's why Republicans are unhappy now. They are the losers and can't help themselves to state serf money. The gentlemanly rules of civilian and soldier seem [to me] to have arisen from European wars where there is an arrangement to meet on the battlefield, have a jolly good show, then the victor takes over the losing team's property and people. That was fine when wars were conducted by musket and sword and the infrastructure of the state and the public were not relevant. The public were serfs of the state, beaten into submission as much as the enemy were to be beaten into submission. But for a long time, with war capacity being produced by civilians and factories, everything to me looks like a target. There has always been a masculine feminine divide too and in tribal wars, women were not killed as they were good for sex. Maoris used to conduct genocidal cannibalistic operations. I don't think women were killed off, but opposing males were. Chimps kill off males from neighbouring tribes, but I think females are okay. They even go off to join other tribes. Good for DNA propagation. Mqurice