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To: marcos who wrote (491)	3/28/1999 10:00:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 17770

If there is in reality no moral element to the use of military and political power, you are right. But most Americans have the belief that there was a moral difference between our bombing of Berlin during WW II and their bombing of Paris and London. As a people we have a peculiar notion that there is a moral element to our government. That being so, the government has at least to try to justify what they are doing in moral terms. It may be as much of a fiction as "I am not having ... " was, but if there was no attempt to morally justify our use of force, the nation wouldn't accept it, and it would have to stop. A jumbled way of saying that while you are probably right in reality, in perception the government can't act that way.