On 7/18/07, Robert J. Chassell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The last grouping is a catchall for those not in the first two groups. > For European countries over the past few centuries, enemy combatants > who do not wear uniforms have been politically insignificant. > > But the category of enemy combatants who do not wear uniforms is no > longer insignificant. > > We need to invent the criteria for including people in a another > group, and procedures for handling them. The procedures must presume > some are innocent and some are not. Let us classify these people as > `enemy suspects'.
I still have no idea who these people are, why they are not like other people and where they have come from. <snip> > Regardless of the actual miss rate, fewer modern bombs will miss their > targets. A consequence of this change in technology is that people > are able to be more concerned about `collateral damage' and dead > civilians. That is one - rather bizarre - way of looking at things. I would suggest that in fact the reason people are able to be more concerned about collateral damge is because a) they are more aware of it and b) the stakes are much lower. With the immoral bombing actions of the Second World War a genuine case can be made for it protecting the bombing nation (although I am not sure that personally I would try to make such a case) whereas no such similar case can be made today. Martin _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
