War Crimes

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C3A2E139-40B7-4DB1-9CF9-028E543DAD32.htm

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/638933.html

http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/30/stories/2005103007750100.htm

The reports of bombing, shelling -- killing from the three sources above -- are all in a today's reporting of the madness that has been breaking out around the world as dissidents kill and their targets retaliate -- firing blindly into the jungles of hatred and fueling thereby ever more brutal killings with their own.

How can any caring person see such conduct -- on either side -- as anything other than madness. I now find that I live in a country that has committed war crimes with an administration that punishes low level troops that it encouraged to commit war crimes, that dodges and weaves its responsibility for committing war crimes, with media that dodge and weave their responsibility for having sanctioned such war crimes, with a population too strung out to halt such war crimes.

Tuesday my Ethics and Society class will discuss the ethics of war -- and what constitutes crimes of war -- justifications for going to war, just ways of fighting wars, just ways of concluding wars.

And so it goes.
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort
to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
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