Re: And how did you celebrate 1 May?

William December Starr wrote:
> In article <ddfr-5176C3.17485007052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
> 
>> Along similar lines, you would say that the people killed by the
>> bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasake were "killed by" the Japanese
>> government, and the victims of the bombing at Dresden and
>> elsewhere were "killed by" the Nazis?
>>
>> I think describing someone as "killed by government X" when you
>> mean "killed in a war started by government X" is, to put it
>> mildly, misleading.
> 
> In a lot of wartime cases the blame for a given civilian death isn't
> binary.  I think my thinking is:
> 
> If the death was physically caused by the unjust aggressor, the unjust
> aggressor gets all the blame.  ("Don't like it?  Then don't be a
> fucking bully.")

"We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen 
leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started 
it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes

of the war for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify

resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an 
instrument of policy.  -  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, U.S. 
representative to the International Conference on Military Trials, Aug.
12,
1945

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