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

To: pezz who wrote (3180)	8/26/1998 2:41:00 AM
From: RJC2006	Respond to of 13994

<<<Hitting a village that you know is the home of women and children because of a belief[ no matter how sincere]that there is a ligament military target involved is some thing I for one would not want to be responsible for.>>> Yeah, we could at least ask them to leave first. <rolling eyes> Thank our lucky stars we don't have to invade Berlin and go after Hitler today. "I don't care if that machine gun nest is tearing us to bits there's a lady standing there!"

To: pezz who wrote (3180)	8/26/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

There are always degrees of military action, probably have been since the earliest days but certainly since the Civil War and Sherman's march brought war specifically to civilian populations. What I have objected to is BC's position that he doesn't care a rat's rear end about the common people of Sudan and Afganistan. If you stop caring about innocent people, you stop being human. Being human means you may have to accept some deaths of innocent people because of military necessity (which is a separate debate on the Sudan factory!), but that you have compassion for the people caught, by no fault of their own, in the clash of the armies of the ignorant that move by night, and that you know that when the bell tolls their death it also tolls for all of us.