On Sep 14, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote:
> 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
I'm not overlooking the disproportion between the two sides either. I was only objecting to Cde Cox's Buchenwald metaphor, which is so disproportionate as to undermine his own case.