[extropy-chat] Re: Meta: Too far [Operation Just Cause: Panama]

[Terry W. Colvin]

Damien Broderick wrote:

> At 07:00 PM 6/29/2005 -0400, Joseph wrote:
>
>> I think there is a WORLD of difference between forcing unarmed 
>> Communist party officials to dig their own graves for summary 
>> execution in 1943, and US Marines firing at Iraqi soldiers who are 
>> armed with machine guns, tanks, and RPGs (or terrorists armed with 
>> machine guns, suicide bomb-vests, and RPGs). And if any of my 
>> European (or any other, for that matter) friends cannot see that 
>> distinction, then I mourn for the loss of any sort of substantive 
>> communication between us.
>
>
> The topic was Panama, not Iraq, and the deaths of thousands of 
> civilians on a pitiful pretext that Stuart says he knew was bullshit 
> before he left. (Note that I am NOT accusing Stuart himself of 
> dishonorable conduct.)


< http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/just_cause.htm >

Between 200-500 civilian deaths were estimated with the high figure coming
from the United Nations.

I served in Panama from 1981 to 1984 at SSO Panama.

The Panama Canal is less vital than in past decades but still important 
to world
trade.  The anarchists and do-nothing idealists would have us do nothing.
What maroons!

Terry


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