[lbo-talk] David Brooks calls for US war crimes

[Carl Remick]

What an awesome achievement.  David Brooks' column today in the NY Times 
today may be the most demented piece ever to appear in that paper.  His 
comments are nothing less than an attempt to justify the US committing war 
crimes, i.e.:  "It's not that we can't accept casualties. History shows that 
Americans are willing to make sacrifices. The real doubts come when we see 
ourselves inflicting them. What will happen to the national mood when the 
news programs start broadcasting images of the brutal measures our own 
troops will have to adopt? Inevitably, there will be atrocities that will 
cause many good-hearted people to defect from the cause. They will be 
tempted to have us retreat into the paradise of our own innocence."

<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/04/opinion/04BROO.html>

Carl

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