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To: FairOpinion

Past time to denounce and withdraw from the Geneva Convention treaty, change the rules of engagement.

Fight street fighters on their own basis, no holds bared.

Quit going to a gun fight with a knife.

The purpose of going to war is to destroy property and kill people.


9 posted on 02/03/2007 9:30:24 AM PST by dalereed
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To: dalereed
The purpose of going to war is to destroy property and kill people.

No it is not. Those are means, not ends. The purpose of going to war is to impose your will upon the enemy, by physical, as opposed to say economic, means.

28 posted on 02/03/2007 11:09:44 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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