[lbo-talk] Amnesty Report: Hezbollah War Crimes

[Michael McIntyre]

Fair enough Doug, but the argument that Hezbollah's attack were war  
crimes would also lead one to the conclusion that the British bombing  
campaign in WWII was a war crime (night bombing, which reduced  
bombing accuracy so that the target became civilian populations and  
nothing but).  US daytime bombing was only a bit more accurate.   
There is a serious case to be made that these WERE war crimes.   
Elizabeth Anscombe did so very effectively.  Juan Cole has argued  
that Hezbollah's missile attacks were war crimes from the very  
first.  But Cole also never ignored the massive disproportion between  
the two sides, and never ignored who was the aggressor.  Amnesty's  
(and HRW's) evenhandedness stinks.
Michael McIntyre

On Sep 14, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:


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> On Sep 14, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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>> Next we need an exposure of the war crimes committed by the  
>> prisoners at
>> Buchenwald.
>
> Don't you always say that Nazi analogies are overheated &  
> inaccurate? This analogy in particular is way off, since Israeli  
> civilians are not comparable to SS members, unless you've joined  
> the Little Eichmanns brigade.
>
> Doug
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