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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 01:21 am

Волох очень правильно говорит, рассуждая об использовании высокотехнологического оружия:

The logic of much of the legal opposition to the use of these weapons, beyond the specifics of the legal arguments in specific circumstances, as has been said to me dozens of times by leading lawyers in the human rights community, academics, and activists, is that the more discriminating the weapon and the less it risks American soldiers in its use, the greater the incentive for it to be used, thus raising the threshold of violence. On a couple of occasions, the American military and CIA officers using these weapons have simply been described to me as “cowards” because they hide behind their computer screens and won’t come out to fight, as it were.

Т.е. это опять тот же омерзительный аргумент, с которым пристают к Израилю - почему, дескать, ваших так мало гибнет? Вы нечестно воюете! По-честному, гибнуть должно больше! И дальше так:

I’ve responded by noting that the enemy hides behind its women and children, and won’t come out to fight, either. But, very strikingly, the immediate riposte in every conversation of this kind is that the US military has brought this on itself by using weapons that leave the other side with no choice but to use civilian shields.

T.e. американцы (и израильтяне) просто нечестно хорошо воюют - их победить трудно, а пострадать легко. Поэтому бедным террористам ничего не остаётся, как прятаться за гражданскими. Для честности.
Надо помнить, что когда левые говорят о честности, справедливости и т.п. - они зачастую именно такого рода честность имеют в виду.

P.S. Ещё борцы за частность, много, во главе с автором.

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