From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 13:59:23 MST
--- Hubert Mania <humania@t-online.de> wrote:
>
> This fantasy of personalizing bulletts and bombs with it's obvious
> hate towards Iraqui civilians is so utterly disgusting that you
> cannot ignore it.
> Reason and arguments have long since left this thread. So I answered
> by firing back in the same spirit. Al least I found a term for my
> political viewpoint: I think I am a militant pacifist.
So you would go to war to end war? ;)
Personalizing bullets and bombs is a matter of military superstition.
It is a common fatalistic view of most every infantryman that there is
a bullet out there with his or her name on it.
Another form of personalization is sending messages on bullets and
bombs. For example, during the famous Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in early
1942, US military personnel who had been awarded medals in the past by
the Japanese government (a common matter of military diplomacy) donated
their medals to be tied to the bombs used in the raid, accompanied with
messages to Tojo, Yamamoto and Hirohito scrawled on the bomb casings.
What I find so odd about Hubert's post, though, is that pacifists who
oppose Israeli actions against families of suicide bombers condemn such
actions as wrong because it is allegedly a form of 'collective
punishment'. Now Hubert seems to be condemning personalized punishment
as wrong. Do you endorse collective punishment instead? Please get your
story straight, this is very confusing.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at these inherent hypocrisies.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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