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To: SARMAN who wrote (273284)	1/23/2010 11:16:58 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Regarding the ship "Liberty" being attacked by Israeli military, I have conducted a wide-ranging, in-depth study of the situation and report herewith. Executive summary: "Ooopps." Underlying principles: 1..... If you give young males a lot of explosives and missiles of various types, they will find an excuse to fire them. 2..... If you put them in a tribal genocidal conflict situation where their risk of death is high, they will fire them quite promptly and at pretty much anything that moves, or doesn't. While the USA can reasonably be concerned if not annoyed or even really brassed off that their ship was attacked and crew killed, there are some precedents, or postcedents. For example, "Vincennes" did a similar thing, but to civilians, not even disguised as military people in a military machine. Similarly, the Russians put paid to a Korean 747 which was deliberately flown by the top South Korean military pilot into USSR military space to spy on responses and activities. Since none of them had anything to gain by killing the people involved, and stood to lose a lot in the case of Israel, it's fairly obvious that there was not a considered decision to kill innocent bystanders. In the case of the Korean 747, there was deliberate provocation, which the USSR repeated soon after over a military base in France using a USSR airliner. In the case of "Vincennes", there was nothing to gain by shooting the airliner but not a lot to lose either. In the case of Israel, it was totally terrible to attack "Liberty". Swarms of Americans would have then and there written Israel and Jews off as swine worthy of destruction. Since the USA is the major benefactor of Israel, it would not be very intelligent to do that. Mqurice