[extropy-chat] Re: Iraq and legality again

The Avantguardian avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 25 00:43:22 UTC 2005



--- c c <beb_cc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The war is legally unjustified, we agree on
> that. So what do we do after over two years and
> three
> months? What's the fallback position?
> 

There is no fallback position. We have go through with
it all the way. The Romans had a saying which
translated from the latin was roughly, "Any fool can
start a war but only the victor can decide when to
stop fighting." One cannot sucker-punch somebody even
by mistake and expect a brawl to not ensue. And once
that happens, you have to win the brawl or lose it.
There is no fallback whether your initial blow was
justified or not. This is the karma of war and why any
use of force is a very grave life-or-death decision
not to be taken lightly by any head of state. This
wisdom is thousands of years old. A pity that Dubya
never read "the Art of War".


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