[lbo-talk] Humanize the Enemy (Re: Churchill's complaint)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Tue Feb 15 11:41:37 PST 2005, 
[lbo-talk] Churchill's complaint:
>It's done nothing at all to humanize the "enemy," or even raise the 
>level of discourse. The only principled thing to do is to humanize 
>the "enemy" - you're corrupting yourself if you embrace us/them 
>logic and reverse the signs.

If humanizing the enemy only means humanizing the "enemy," i.e., 
innocent civilians who never even think about taking up arms against 
anyone, aren't we still dehumanizing the enemy?

Would you be willing to humanize the enemy who actually commits 
terrorism, e.g., those who hijacked the airliners and killed nearly 
three thousand individuals on September 11, 2001, those who took 
hostages and beheaded them in Iraq, etc.?
-- 
Yoshie

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