[extropy-chat] Re: Meta: Too far

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jun 29, 2005, at 5:39 PM, Joseph Bloch wrote:

> Samantha Atkins wrote:
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>> On Jun 29, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Joseph Bloch wrote:
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>>> Now, that being said, 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Do you believe this in the only type of people our military  
>> forces  are firing at, bombing and so on?
>>
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> Intentionally? Absolutely. Are there going to be unavoidable  
> collateral casualties? Equally absolutely. Especially in a  
> situation where parsing the enemy from the friendlies from the  
> neutrals is ten times harder because the enemy deliberately tries  
> to disguise itself as the latter (in contravention of the Geneva  
> Convention which gets tossed about so glibly by the anti-American  
> folks, I might add).

I have nothing to say in the face of this level of denial.

- s