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To: Borzou Daragahi who wrote (11501)	10/28/1998 6:38:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Respond to of 67261

Borzou - have you ever been in, or even around combat? Killing is such an easy topic for civilians to take a stand on as long as we have someone to go out and do it for us when we finally decide we want it done. Once you are part of the military, engaged in battle, whether by choice or circumstance, you don't have the option of gracefully changing your mind after analyzing what the world is going to think of your actions years hence. Ruthlessness is not something you just dabble in. The much-rumored Marine credo, "Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out" has its place in armed combat. Pinochet was just another leader that decided that he would win with whatever means he found at his disposal at that time. I still believe that the outcome was for the greater good. In the course of the 2nd world war, we killed untold-thousands of civilians and non-combatants, each an individual human tragedy to be sure, but on a scale of world events and for the cause their lives were taken, we have to regret it took place but not condemn the people who, in the course of winning the war, brought those deaths about on our behalf. Mr. K.