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To: nihil who wrote (22394)	4/18/1999 10:37:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I too agree that sniping is murder. But it isn't, because the object of war is incapacitation. But it is, because it is cowardly murder. But war is not about cowardice, it is about protection. Dropping bombs from planes is the worst form of sniping. But war is about the subtraction of things. And one must subtract their humanity, too. To perform protection to the best of their ability. I don't think it would matter to me if I took someone's life at 50 feet or 5000. In the long run. The day after. I am not disagreeing with you. (Agreeing more completely?) My brother in law was a sniper. I don't ask him about it. Ever. I heard from my nephew the number 22. The victim doesn't have a chance. True. But I read a WWII pilot's account of killing the best Nazi flier he encountered, in his chute. He had never done that before, but he said it became plain to him that this flier was too good to live, and that this was war. He, the Nazi, would fly again and put another 5 Jacks on his plane. We decide, or it is decided for us, that we are combatants; and really we have no rights from there on in. You agree, or are selected, to die. And, kill. Shield and sword combat on the plain of Marathon. The last holy war?