Re:“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”
by GeneralMayhem on Monday July 08, 2013 @02:16AM
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>There's no such thing as an overreaction in war.
There is when we (a) don't know who the enemies are and (b) live in a post-Geneva world where the international consensus is that yes, there are lines that can never be crossed.
Re:“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”
by tsotha on Monday July 08, 2013 @09:41PM
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a) We knew who the enemies were. We let civilians out of the city before it was attacked.
b) We didn't gas or nuke them. In terms of the amount of conventional firepower you can bring to bear on enemy combatants... there's no limit.
That's so daft I don't know where to start. There's no such thing as an overreaction in war.
>the more direct problem that there is no a preponderance of ex-soldiers, weapons, and an entire industrial base massively expanded and looking for civilian roles now everyone can see wars winding down and this kind of thing will be more prevalent.
All these things were true to a much greater extent at the end of the Vietnam war and again at the end of the cold war.