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>>>So; civilian dress is also camouflage and therefore a uniform. No?
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>>But that also makes them combatants and therefore legitimate targets.
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>And also POWs when caught.
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You're right. In order to prevent further abuses like Abu Ghrab and Guantanamo we should have a new policy of taking no prisoners.
Hey, NEW NEAL STEPHENSON BOOK !!! Not sure why I was caught by surprise but what a pleasant surprise.
Anathem I'm only about 100 pages into my library copy but my Amazon order should be here in a day or two.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
