> Btw, Luke suggests that while he thinks the suicide
> bombers' tactics are wrong because they reduce the
> chances for a just peace, nonetheless they are not
> wrong in principle because if they did not, they would
> be OK. He alludes vaguely to (I think) the civilian
> casualties of Allied bombing in WWII --Dresden,
> Rotterdam, and the like. I may be quaint and old
> fashioned, but I think that strategic bombing is both
> legally and morally a war crime. Also, it didn't work,
> as Luke knows (or should know) the US determined after
> the war.
I don't think that there's a reasonable distinction to be made between killing civilians and killing soldiers. I suppose we could say that the latter have it comin' to 'em because they dared to put on a warrior's set of clothing, but it many cases they really didn't have much choice in the matter.
-- Luke