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The Morality of the Air War<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Another National Review<\/i> opinion piece, by James S. Robbins, about how American air war policy has changed — for the more moral — since WWII.<\/p>\n

Of course innocent blood will be shed. It already has been by the terrorists, with full intent and extreme prejudice. But the critical distinction between our side and theirs is that we recognize that there are<\/i> innocents. The terrorists grant no such fine distinctions. As Osama put it himself so trenchantly in 1998, “In today’s wars, there are no morals.”<\/p>\n

The article also notes that the American reputation for “pin-point accuracy” and “smart weapons” (reputation loudly proclaimed by the DoD itself) may be backfiring on us, as it makes any miss, any damage to anything but the precise point where there was a military target, fodder for the “Americans are carpet-bombing innocent civilians” mill.<\/p>\n

(Via, once again, InstaPundit)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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