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by jimboloco » October 12th, 2007, 5:02 pm
well for instance when we stopped the serbians from their shelling of sarajevo and also their genicodal intent in kosovo, we also bombed a civilian train in serbia as well as killed civilians with the bombing of montenegro.
in afghanistan, we shot up a wedding party with our gunships, and are still killing civilians there.
these are more justifiable wars, as they have a true international support, but have their awful and clumsy tragic consequences
what i am sayibg is that any war opens up doorways into tragedy and that no matter how good and decent the military people are going into wars, they will become brutalised and committ atrocities, either with intent or by accident.
my sister's quaker godfather said that he and my long dead daddie and their b-24 bomber crew were unable to drop their bombs on target over germany in ww2 so on the way back they dropped all their bombs on a german village
i know a guy who dropped a phosphorus flare onto a vietnamese village, burning it to the ground
he was at phan thiet, the artillery base where my kia drawing with cargo plane was remembered, killed by a sapper's knive at night
he said that after he burned down the village, they were attacked less often for awhile
so anytime that we go into a war we will committ atrocity
unfortunately, in the case of iraq/iran, we don't have a developed and skilled international diplomacy established
with the taliban, they were supposed to have offerred us osama, we could've said ok, give him here, but also demanded the taliban prez, who did not want to offer up himself, and we could've gone after the al-qaida training bases and spefically after them, but they were embedded into the talibani government, so i supported that one, with the civilian casualties being a minimum
maybe i am rationalising this so as to seem to have some credibility about rejecting the iraq debacle
i think that texas should have never joined either the union or the confereracy also
viva cantinflas where is he when we need him?
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