Note to the "ladder of force left"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 24 09:19:26 PDT 2001


Carl Remick wrote:


>>Like I've said many times, I oppose the current strategy. It kills
>>and threatens lots of civilians, probably spares the actual perps,
>>does little if anything to prevent future disasters, and makes us
>>many enemies. I'd just like to make people realize that the no
>>civilian death standard is impossible to meet anywhere but in
>>fantasy. I'm not endorsing civilian death by saying that, either.
>>
>>Doug
>
>Yesterday upon the stair
>I met a plan that wasn’t there.
>It wasn’t there again today.
>Oh how I wish it'd go away.

Thanks for the poetic interlude. Do you have a no-civilian-death strategy you'd like to share with us, or did you just feel in a rhyming mood?

Doug



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