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<DIV>There's an interesting piece in the latest London Review of Books by Duke
University international law professor Michael Byers. Byers describes
how t<SPAN
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US’s cavalier approach to starting wars and the new methods it is using to fight
them are both in violation of international law and morality. </SPAN></DIV>
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the result of the breakthrough in military technology, which has given the
US the capacity to wage war from safe distances at much less cost in blood and
treasure to itself. The new high-tech weaponry thus serves as an an incentive to
launch wars for reasons other than self-defence, the only permissible grounds
for doing so, and to bypass pitched battles with opposing armed
forces to strike directly at power grids, water filtration plants, and
other infrastructure in a bid to break the will of the civilian population and
provoke internal uprisings. </SPAN></DIV>
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development, which first manifested itself in the Gulf War and Kosovo,
has since led the Pentagon, encouraged by Donald Rumsfeld, to re-evaluate the
conventions of war prohibiting the direct or indirect targeting of civilians, as
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style="mso-spacerun: yes">You can access the LRB site directly (I think
it's a non-sub article), or read it on <A
href="http://www.supportingfacts.com">www.supportingfacts.com</A> . Sorry for
any cross-posting.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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