On 10 Aug 2002 at 22:19, Hermit wrote:
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> And the point was?
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> As in Vietnam, it seems that the US is instructing its forces to
> target non-combatants. Purely in self-defense you say? Perhaps. It
> wasn't in Vietnam, but it still took 30 years for evidence of the
> extent of American War crimes there to become apparant. And the line
> between "collateral casualties" and "deliberate targeting" is a thin
> one, where one has to depend on establishing "intent." However,
> demographics also tell a story. And a few dozen al Qu'aeda members and
> a few hundred Taliban at the cost of some 3,800 civilian casualties
> might be seen by some as telling a tale in its own right. I'm sure
> that you won't. After all, you could always explain that the Afghan
> civilians are killing one another, while the US just looks on. It is
> hardly less believable than claiming that this is the case for the
> Palestinians.
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Or that claiming that the strikes were sooo good that many vaporized
enemy bodies were never countable, and all we are left with are a
relatively few civilians on the periphery?
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> Perhaps somebody out there will agree with you.
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Well, Hermit, you always have Scatflinger...
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