Date: 14 Nov 2001 18:23:45 MST From: J S <spl1t_h0r1z0n@usa.net> To: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Re: Course of law] Message-ID: <20011115012345.11327.qmail@cpdvg201.cms.usa.net>
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Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> > 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=
=2E
> In Algeria, the war has been gained against the Frenchs purely by the u=
se
> 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
violence begets violence - it just depends on who is writing the story
as to what justification they create for it. =
fight war, not wars
joshua
Joshua Smith, CCNA
Data Center Technian
USA.NET
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