When will we learn that war, violence, death,
destruction, and even
annihilation of entire countries, or races of
people, will not make a
difference in bring safety and security to the
American people.
Violence, fear, and horror, once released, takes on
a life of their own.
Violence is self perpetuating. Violence breads
more violence. Only
understanding, respect, diplomacy and true caring
matter in bring us
closer to a solution of living in a non-violent
world in peace and
harmony, one with another.
Regards,
LelandJ
Hal Kaplan wrote:
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The rules of war have evolved over time as humanity
has moved towards
enlightenment. Back in the middle ages wars might
evolve one castle
against another castle; kind of like two miniature
kingdoms that had
declared war. All members of each opposing castle,
were considered
enemies and subject to the same set of rules of
war. This meant that
even the maids and stable boys were pawns of war,
even if they never
engaged in any actual combat, and if captured they
were subject to the
same harsh treatment as the warriors, including
execution by poling or
other means, including torture to death. There was
no concept of
non-combatants.
Over time rules of war evolved where non-combatants
were not considered
as enemies, and only the armys of each opposing
side meet on the
battlefield of war. Later the laws of war were
refined to standardize
treatment of combatants that had been captured, so
that the enemy
combatants would be treated in a manner like any
the warriors would want
to be treated if they became captive.
Some day humanity will evolve to a place where war
will be obsolete, but
for now I would not recommend any reversing of the
rules of war back to
a more primitive time in the past, even if it got
some high political
office holders off the hook.
Regards,
LelandJ
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Leland, I respect your opinion and even agree with
it in theory. But
all theories are subject to empiricism. Yes, we
have rules and I
mentioned those. However, people who are not
members of a uniformed
military force are not subject to those rules and
they do not abide by
those rules. So why should we?
You speak of humanity, but humanistic people do not
strap bombs to
themselves and blow-up innocent people. Humanistic
people do not make
schools and hospitals targets by waging war from
them. We have got to
fight fire with fire. These people have been duped
into believing that
they are doing something holy and will stop at
nothing. The sooner we
bring them to nothingness, the sooner they will
stop.
HALinNY
