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03/23/03 08:59 PM: War is Hell
I have about 32 things to do this week, so I will have to make the updates short. Either that or I just won’t sleep. I haven’t really decided yet. I’m working on this paper on using Mill’s harm principle to justify legalization of recreational drugs, and now I am working on an editorial for the Voice this week. Plus, I have this other 10 page paper due on Friday for history. Now I remember why I love school so much.
I read this at the Politburo Weblog,
We have just seen up-close images of the United States Marines executed by Iraqi forces. All appear to have been shot directly in the forehead. For obvious reasons, we will not repost them here. We just wanted to lower the level of intellectual discourse and speak frankly and emotionally. To our fighting men and women: Show these sons of bitches no mercy. When they surrender, treat them humanely, as stipulated by the Geneva Convention. On this issue, the United States will always retain the moral high ground. Let us not cede this high ground out of anger and revenge. But when you engage Iraqi troops on the battlefield give them everything you got. They have had the opportunity to surrender and chose not to take it. Instead, they have chosen to defend a malignant dictatorship and a wicked leader. Give them no quarter. And we will see you in Baghdad.
... and I have to agree. One comment attached to that story talked about how U.S. soldiers take the time to bury unclaimed Iraqi dead so their graves face Mecca. This, opposed to the Russians in Chechnya, who bury the enemies in pork skins.
I don’t know if any of that is true, but it does remind me of a quote from Winston Churchill: “We shall show them mercy, but we shall not ask for it.”
