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To: Texasforever
When you add up the devastation to that region that will result from the bombing attacks, the depleted-uranium shells that litter the countryside, etc., I'm sure the toll will be much higher.

The numbers are less important than the principle that is involved here. The United States carried out a military campaign of dubious nature, and in the process they placed a higher value on their own military personnel (and political fortunes, in the case of Bill Clinton) than on the lives of foreign civilians.

If those aren't war crimes, I don't know what is.

14 posted on 09/23/2001 11:41:10 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: Alberta's Child
I didn't like Bubba's little Balkan war either, but it isn't a war crime to place a higher value on your country's soldiers than on foreign civilians. Clinton didn't place a higher value on US soldiers than on foreign citizens. The fact is, Clinton didn't give a flying flock about any countries' citizens or our soldiers. Clinton's only concern was his own poll ratings and his own political survivability. All told, though- what was done in the Balkans was incredibly minimal compared to what could easily have been done had we wanted to do so. If it was any other country but the US flying overhead, there would have been no Yugoslavians wearing paper targets and standing on bridges to protect them. I guarantee that.

As for the value of US soldiers and airmen, US personnel are of higher value to the US than foreign civilians in wartime. That's just common sense. The life of the US president is more valuable than mine as well... if I get killed I won't be missed - but if a President gets killed, it could cause a terrible delay and confusion in time of crisis that might get many more Americans killed. An American city or strategic target is more valuable than a planeload of American civilians- in wartime or peacetime. It is just sensible.

22 posted on 09/24/2001 12:15:26 AM PDT by piasa
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