Oh Michael
(and I really don't want to get into this)
saturation bombing of civilian areas is not 'killing equally innocent people
despite real efforts, however inadequate in practice, to avoid those
deaths.'
It's murder. As most Afghans have no access to the world's media I have no
idea how you can say what they 'realise'.
There's a very stupid simple moral point at stake here: two wrongs do not
make a right.
I rest my case.
Best
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Snider" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: Hypocrisies
> On Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 08:53 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
>
> > Let's separate the real - I was going to say, tragedy, but it's such
> > an abused word - of the WTC murders from the, yes, very
> > self-interested hysterical nationalism which those in power in your
> > country use to justify equally murderous acts.
> >
>
> Even if the numbers in the piece of "journalism" you quoted are true,
> there's an enormous difference between deliberately killing innocent
> people and killing equally innocent people despite real efforts, however
> inadequate in practice, to avoid those deaths. The first is murder. The
> second, whether or not Allied policy in Afghanistan is justifiable, is
> NOT murder. The people of Afghanistan have no trouble seeing the
> distinction -- why can't you?
>
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