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John Wight: "Barrel bombs are an atrociously indiscriminate weapon, for
sure, and their use rightly comes under the category of atrocity.
However just as the atrocity of the allied firebombing of Dresden in
1945 did not invalidate the war against European fascism then, neither
does the atrocity of Syrian barrel bombs invalidate the war against its
Middle East equivalent today. When the survival of a country and its
culture and history is at stake, war can never be anything other than
ugly, which is why the sooner it is brought to a conclusion in Syria the
better."
Tim Arango reporting in today's NY Times:
Speaking on Israeli radio on Sunday, Shabtai Shavit, a former chief of
Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, said the international
coalition that has been fighting the Islamic State for more than a year
must “stop talking and start doing.”
He continued: “With this enemy, we have to push aside arguments on law,
morality and comparisons of security and the rights of the individual.
That means to do what they did in World War II to Dresden. They wiped it
off the map. That is what has to be done to all the territorial enclaves
that ISIS is holding.”
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