The World Since 4004 BC: Hussein at Dinner: An Inquiry Into The Ethics Of Collateral Damage

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Friday, April 25, 2003

Hussein at Dinner: An Inquiry Into The Ethics Of Collateral Damage

Okay, let me see if I have this straight. It is against international law to assassinate the leader of a sovereign nation but it is perfectly okay to drop blockbuster crater bombs on a restaurant where that leader is understood to be eating if you preemptively invade that nation and call it war? It is wrong to singularly assassinate heads-of-state but okay to blow caterers and cooks and maitre des to collateral smithereens? I may have missed it but I don’t believe I’ve seen the technicalities of... Sign in to see full entry.

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