No dude, that's not a defense that is very helpful as it assumes that this happened and then makes excuses for it. Moreover, it is a slap in the face to the millions of soviet soldiers and partisans who didn't do things like that. I'm not sure what your experiences in war or military life are, but there are plenty of people who have fought in wars and been in extreme situations and not committed these crimes; ultimately it is an unavoidable individual moral decision that a person must make in that situation which the movie "Casualties of War" depicts very well. Finally, to glibly say that since war is about violence and rape is violence means that anything goes including rape is unacceptable.
> Well, let's see. If, as I do, you consider rape a form of violence, and the > purpose of war to inflict more violence on your enemy than they inflict on > you; and given that the war in question was one of the most brutal and > cruel in human history, why would you think that rape would not be part and > parcel of the violence involved? > _________________________________________________________________ Get free photo software from Windows Live http://www.windowslive.com/online/photos?ocid=PID23393::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_PH_software:082009 ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
