Comments on: Tortured Reasoning http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=8246 "The hobgoblin of little blogs." "A knack for taking the already disturbing and turning it into the abjectly ghastly." Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:21:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: KHO http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=8246#comment-61018 KHO Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:19:07 +0000 http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=8246#comment-61018 In Liege, Belgium, 1914, non-combatants acted with force against German army occupiers. The Germans reacted with executions and the imposition of terror upon the civilian population. This served the anti-German propaganda of WWI, but it also had a profound effect on the Geneva Accords of 1929. Those agreements in part sought to avoid visiting the horror of war upon non-combatants. On the battlefield, civilians and surrendered military personnel are non-combatants. Likewise, participants sought to curb the horrors visited upon combatants, actively combative military personnel. Protections are intentionally missing for actively combative civilians, what we call terrorists. Actively combative civilians hide among the civilian population, thus forcing the military forces to visit the horror of war upon civilians, as at Liege, Warsaw, Gaza... What do we do with him? Use him until he has nothing to offer, kill him, feed his carcass to the dogs, the end. I am more concerned about what to do with an empty beer bottle (do we recycle colored glass?). KHO In Liege, Belgium, 1914, non-combatants acted with force against German army occupiers. The Germans reacted with executions and the imposition of terror upon the civilian population. This served the anti-German propaganda of WWI, but it also had a profound effect on the Geneva Accords of 1929. Those agreements in part sought to avoid visiting the horror of war upon non-combatants. On the battlefield, civilians and surrendered military personnel are non-combatants. Likewise, participants sought to curb the horrors visited upon combatants, actively combative military personnel. Protections are intentionally missing for actively combative civilians, what we call terrorists. Actively combative civilians hide among the civilian population, thus forcing the military forces to visit the horror of war upon civilians, as at Liege, Warsaw, Gaza…

What do we do with him? Use him until he has nothing to offer, kill him, feed his carcass to the dogs, the end. I am more concerned about what to do with an empty beer bottle (do we recycle colored glass?).

KHO

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