Sunday, December 05, 2004

This Sounds Like Murder to Me

If a 13 year old is a threat, ie carrying a bomb or known to be working as a terrorist operative, I have no trouble classifying them as a combatant and killing them. But this does not pass, it seems to me, a reasonableness test. Even soldiers need to take better care with children, especially this young.

Also, I hate to judge soldiers, who are under immense pressure, but unleashing the entire mag into her after she's dead. Lock him up. Sadly, if he were a Palestinian or Arab terrorist, I'd probably say, lynch him up.

Further, Israel has this chance right now to demonstrate their good intentions with respect to the Palestinians. This would be a way to prove it.

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