Not good.
But is dying "conventionally" through a "normal" bomb any better? Isn't death in war death in war? Why are we suprised by all this? What are we expecting from a nation at war?
And are we applying the same rules to the other side? Is flying planes into buildings and blowing up civilians in nightclubs or embassies any better? Is torturing your own civilians unto death a pillar of moral righteousness?
What's the point? War is evil. We already knew that.
Edit:
Perhaps if the world had been of one voice regarding getting a totalitarian brutal murdering maniac out of office, instead of giving him valuable international support, there would have been no war.
I blame "the coalition of the unwilling" just as much, if not more so than anyone else for the war. If a man is beating his wife and kids to death, we have a moral obligation to get in there and stop him. Those that used "peace activism" to support a brutal regime and perpetuate it by tading with him, are as guilty as a person who knows a child is being beaten, and endorses the behaviour.
Human rights FIRST
International sovereignty SECOND
[ 08-11-2003, 11:49 AM: Message edited by: Yorick ]