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Post by dezii on Jan 14, 2020 17:53:22 GMT -5
Hopefully he has been sidelined by the uproar against such a policy by foreign governments [ think Great Britain for one} and members of his own Administration, but just in case he does give such a order, possible the following article might influence him to change his mind. =================================== General Eisenhower's letter to his top Generals: "“Today we are fighting in a country which has contributed a great deal to our cultural inheritance, a country rich in monuments which by their creation helped and now in their old age illustrate the civilization which is ours. We are bound to respect those monuments as far as war allows.” =================================== www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-grossman-monuments-0113-20200113-n5w5a6rtnbdm3cbujmuvru6dqe-story.html |
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 14, 2020 18:08:28 GMT -5
Anyone remember the episode of the original Star Trek where they found a society in a war, and to make it less messy, they put everyone in a lottery, and when your number was pulled, you would turn yourself in and you would be killed painlessly? I'm glad we have defined some actions that are so bad, even in times of war they are unacceptable, but wonder if we are on our way to sterilizing war so much that it is ineffective.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jan 14, 2020 18:22:21 GMT -5
Anyone remember the episode of the original Star Trek where they found a society in a war, and to make it less messy, they put everyone in a lottery, and when your number was pulled, you would turn yourself in and you would be killed painlessly? I'm glad we have defined some actions that are so bad, even in times of war they are unacceptable, but wonder if we are on our way to sterilizing war so much that it is ineffective. Sounds like The Lottery by Shirley Jackson but on a nuch grander scale. |
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Post by billisonboard on Jan 14, 2020 18:35:37 GMT -5
Anyone remember the episode of the original Star Trek where they found a society in a war, and to make it less messy, they put everyone in a lottery, and when your number was pulled, you would turn yourself in and you would be killed painlessly? I'm glad we have defined some actions that are so bad, even in times of war they are unacceptable, but wonder if we are on our way to sterilizing war so much that it is ineffective. I am concerned more with it being, in one sense, too effective. I think that there has been an effort to create a US Military that seriously minimizes human casualties. While it is good for US service members, it makes it harder to end US engagements. There is no way that we would still be "at war" in Afghanistan if we had the same monthly casualty counts that were happening in Vietnam. Remote drone attacks can go on forever without the repercussions that soldier deaths create. |
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Post by tallguy on Jan 14, 2020 19:00:46 GMT -5
Anyone remember the episode of the original Star Trek where they found a society in a war, and to make it less messy, they put everyone in a lottery, and when your number was pulled, you would turn yourself in and you would be killed painlessly? I'm glad we have defined some actions that are so bad, even in times of war they are unacceptable, but wonder if we are on our way to sterilizing war so much that it is ineffective.
And it wasn't a lottery, but a computer simulation with real societally-sanctioned results and effects. |
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 14, 2020 19:59:28 GMT -5
Anyone remember the episode of the original Star Trek where they found a society in a war, and to make it less messy, they put everyone in a lottery, and when your number was pulled, you would turn yourself in and you would be killed painlessly? I'm glad we have defined some actions that are so bad, even in times of war they are unacceptable, but wonder if we are on our way to sterilizing war so much that it is ineffective.
And it wasn't a lottery, but a computer simulation with real societally-sanctioned results and effects. Whatevs |
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Post by moon/Laura on Jan 14, 2020 20:15:04 GMT -5
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