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To: The Philosopher who wrote (10545)	5/30/1999 6:11:00 PM
From: Nikole Wollerstein	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

"But the bombings of civilian power grids, water pumps, villages, are a deliberate and intentional attack on the civilians. There is no excuse for these as "military targets." We are intentionally (and illegally) targeting the civilian population in the hope that they will bring pressure on Milosovic to end the war" So you think we should not target civilian infrastructure and prolong the war? In the country that spends 50% of GDP on military how you can tell the difference between military and civilian infrastructure?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (10545)	5/30/1999 6:46:00 PM
From: robnhood	Respond to of 17770

<<< in the hope that they will bring pressure on Milosovic to end the war. >>> This is the line we are fed, or led to believe... There is not necessarily any truth to it at all, after all it has not worked in Iraq, and I do recall reading that the administration was told before they started that it would not work here either... I for one have doubts to the validity if that line of thinking...

To: The Philosopher who wrote (10545)	5/30/1999 6:52:00 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

I don't think you can distinguish between civilian and military power grids and other public infrastructure facilities. If these are offlimits, are you saying you believe war itself is a war crime? If so, should we just destroy our own air forces as there is no clean way to insure no civilians will ever be casulties or victimized in some indirect way - by losing power and water for example? Do you think Harrry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt were war criminals who should have been tried along with Nazis? Were they the moral equivalents of Hitler in your view? After all, the allies did bomb German and Japanese cities.