The Logic Off Topic list

Thoughts from the mind of marc lindahl, 9/24/01:

>  > Obviously, you now suddenly can say that anything the US does is a
>  > war-act (ignoring the simple fact that they mingled in a war not
>>  their own, out of their own free will).  And so all of a sudden all
>>  the killing is justified, since it's just "war acts"???
>
>Your "logic" makes every makes every effort to cloud the situation, and not
>distinguish between terrorism, war, interventions, police actions, or other
>forms of participation.

No, it's the original poster who failed to make this distinction.  If 
one says the US only killed people in war-acts, then clearly such a 
person considers every armed conflict to be war-acts.  That's 
precisly the viewpoint I was _opposing_.  Many of these so-called 
"war acts" were simply interventions in defence of e.g. US interests, 
etc.

Besides, isn't it the US _itself_ that's now talking about war?  CNN: 
"America's new war".  Etc.  Isn't that the exact same failure to 
distinguish between 'war' proper, and actions against terrorism, 
which you accuse _me_ from?


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