Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:00:04 +0100 From: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Course of law Message-ID: <20011029110004.A1018@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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> Minor correction: "military", not "civilians". If you shoot at > civilians, you're a terrorist. What you are saying was true in 18 th century perhaps, but is completely off-topic now. Take the example of World War II. The allies have completely erased whole German cities like Dresden making thousands of civilian casualties, not to mention Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In fact the modern war is conducted mainly against civilians, in the hope it will diminish the military resources. This implies that it is not possible to make a clear cut distinction between war activities and terrorism, except in rethorics. As you surely know, Vietnam war has been won againsts Frenchs and then Americans using "terrorist" methods, followed by full scale war methods. In Algeria, the war has been gained against the Frenchs purely by the use of "terrorist" methods. Or to give an other example, when the Frenchs were occupied by the Germans during World War II, the activities of French resistants were depicted by the Germans as "terrorism". So please, as a computer scientist, try to dismiss arguments who have a completely void real content. In reality all forms of war are evil, and necessarily lead to immoral behavior. -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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