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- From: mcgredo@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Don Mcgregor)
- Newsgroups: alt.desert-storm
- Subject: Re: American Raids on Iraq
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:33:08 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Oregon State University
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- In article <C198CM.D72@dcs.ed.ac.uk> mikef@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Mike Fourman) writes:
- >In article <1jkvfrINN5vu@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>, mcgredo@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Don McGregor) writes:
- >>
- >> If you're going to bomb someone, make it hurt. If you want to send
- >> a message, call Western Union. Colin Powell is probably right
- >> on this one.
- >
- >I suppose this was the "justification" for Dresden. Remember bombs kill people.
- >War is not a game.
- >
- That's why I'm opposed to doing things piecemeal. If small attacks to
- "send a message" are serving no purpose in furthering the political aims
- of the coalition, they're just senseless violence.
-
- Which is completely orthogonal to the question of terror attacks on civilians,
- which I've argued are counter-productive in the past.
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