Comments on: Weasels http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2006/11/weasels.html DPF's Kiwiblog - Fomenting Happy Mischief since 2003 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:36:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hoolian http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2006/11/weasels.html#comment-251434 Hoolian Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:37:03 +0000 http://kiwiblog-test.inspire.net.nz/wordpress/?p=15188#comment-251434 I still can't believe that Tom Cruise beat Paris Hilton. Or Charlie Sheen?! I still can’t believe that Tom Cruise beat Paris Hilton. Or Charlie Sheen?!

]]> By: kiwi_donkey http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2006/11/weasels.html#comment-251433 kiwi_donkey Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:16:29 +0000 http://kiwiblog-test.inspire.net.nz/wordpress/?p=15188#comment-251433 Oops, sorry. Meant to post that on No Right Turn, and now have. Still, it is kind of relevant to the thread .... (Dumbass kiwi_donkey.) Oops, sorry. Meant to post that on No Right Turn, and now have. Still, it is kind of relevant to the thread ….

(Dumbass kiwi_donkey.)

]]> By: kiwi_donkey http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2006/11/weasels.html#comment-251432 kiwi_donkey Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:14:28 +0000 http://kiwiblog-test.inspire.net.nz/wordpress/?p=15188#comment-251432 I feel quite ambivalent about the whole war on terror thing. The real problem here is that the resistance hides within the civilian population, so that they can't be fought without civilian casualties. Concern about this is a relatively recent thing. Past solutions include: - The Roman Empire just killed everyone anyway ("they made a desert and called it peace") - The Germans made reprisals against the civilian population. - The Allies bombed German and Japanese civilians into a state of numb despair. So while I find the USA's approach, including torture to get intelligence, repugnant, I don't know that I can come up with a better alternative. I know that some of it seems against the 'rules of war'. But under the rules of war they could have bombed Kabul flat before invading Afghanistan. They chose not to. War is a dirty business. 'Civilised' armies lose. In WWII the Allies were happy to attack the populations that supported their enemies. What has changed? I feel quite ambivalent about the whole war on terror thing. The real problem here is that the resistance hides within the civilian population, so that they can’t be fought without civilian casualties. Concern about this is a relatively recent thing. Past solutions include:

- The Roman Empire just killed everyone anyway (“they made a desert and called it peace”)
- The Germans made reprisals against the civilian population.
- The Allies bombed German and Japanese civilians into a state of numb despair.

So while I find the USA’s approach, including torture to get intelligence, repugnant, I don’t know that I can come up with a better alternative. I know that some of it seems against the ‘rules of war’. But under the rules of war they could have bombed Kabul flat before invading Afghanistan. They chose not to.

War is a dirty business. ‘Civilised’ armies lose. In WWII the Allies were happy to attack the populations that supported their enemies. What has changed?

]]> By: Murray http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2006/11/weasels.html#comment-251431 Murray Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:27:08 +0000 http://kiwiblog-test.inspire.net.nz/wordpress/?p=15188#comment-251431 As usual Kerry left his run too late. As usual Kerry left his run too late.

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