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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: j_b who wrote (3048)	8/25/1998 11:14:00 AM
From: RJC2006	Respond to of 13994

>>>Not quite - would you have condoned the wholesale bombing of France during WWII? The French (except for the resistance) were not fighting back and more, and the Vichy government was definitely giving aid and comfort. Even then, I don't think America or its allies would have been justified in bombing out civilians that were only cooperating due to German threats of force. That is not so different from what many people in the third world or under any dictatorship live under. As soon as you justify killing innocents, you give more power to the people you are fighting against.>>> Yes and the leader of the Vichy government, Henry Petain, narrowly side-stepped a death sentence in favor of life in prison. Something you failed to mention. Not two months following the Normandy landing the Germans hurried him out of the country and he his government was soon disposed of. France then used whatever limited resources they had at that time to disrupt the German army and indeed did not sit back passively under Charles De Gaulle. <<<In "the Art of War" Sun Tzu says that you must have the moral high ground to fight a war. IMHO, you lose that high ground when you condone killing civilians.>>> True, I am none to comfortable with the methods we have chosen to wage this "war" but I also shed no tears for collateral damage that has resulted because a country and its people chose to harbor a terrorist.