Re: And how did you celebrate 1 May?

In article <fvtlc7$nu6$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (William December Starr) wrote:

> If the death was physically caused by the unjustly attacked nation,
> the question arises of whether and to what degree the action that
> caused it was militarily necessary/justified.  If, for example, you
> believe that the bombing of civilian areas of Aggressor Nation City X
> was militarily necessary then the deaths "belong" to Aggressor
> Nation; if not then the blame goes to the nation that did the actual
> killing.  And if the degree to which the act was justified is
> somewhere inbetween 1 and 0, so's the distribution of the blame.
> This isn't pure math, after all.

Do you think that having people blow themselves up in the middle of 
crowds of civilians is militarily necessary? If not, quite a lot of the 
deaths in Iraq are, by your standard, attributable to the people 
fighting the U.S. (and each other).

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