>[mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Max Sawicky
>Sent: 17 September 2001 21:09
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: RE: More Somalia
>I read "Blackhawk Down." There is no question that
>the U.S. policy during the mission to snag
>Aideed was to shoot anybody in the way,
>but there also seems little doubt that
>women and children were among the combatants.
I think you entirely miss the point being made of the quote as a criticism of the military action, which is that they are condemned by their own words. Unless you think that it us justified to attack and kill children using helicopter gunships if they are "combatants".
Paul