tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136987847943346639.post2771409594062968826..comments2024-03-20T16:19:01.468+07:00Comments on The RAB Experience: Acceptable Collateral Damage?Rob Baitonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05122219639222126602noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136987847943346639.post-11710297122498373962009-01-09T13:43:00.000+07:002009-01-09T13:43:00.000+07:00PJ...Good points all round.To the victors go the s...PJ...<BR/><BR/>Good points all round.<BR/><BR/>To the victors go the spoils (including how history remembers or forgets the excesses).<BR/><BR/>We do not live in a perfect world. So, perhaps I was looking at exploring the minimizing of the collateral damage. <BR/><BR/>It is a sad reality that all conflicts include innocent casualties.<BR/><BR/>Once again, thanks for your inputs.Rob Baitonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05122219639222126602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136987847943346639.post-25541910687043145602009-01-09T05:13:00.000+07:002009-01-09T05:13:00.000+07:00It would be nice to live an a perfect world but......It would be nice to live an a perfect world but....<BR/><BR/>I suppose acceptable collateral damage depends on whats acceptable to the parties engaged in the conflict. For example Lincoln may be remembered as the great emacipator and yet he had no issues ravaging the South to protect the Union. The Allies had no issues carpet bombing civilian populations during the WW2. And who can forget the bigpjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14482542083622607305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136987847943346639.post-91187420481794019102009-01-08T17:50:00.000+07:002009-01-08T17:50:00.000+07:00@oigal: Who said anything about Hamas? All I was s...@oigal: Who said anything about Hamas? All I was saying was that it is one thing to accidentally kill civilians, it is another thing to knowingly kill them.Bretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03076930094881915831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136987847943346639.post-53683668914397044272009-01-08T14:06:00.000+07:002009-01-08T14:06:00.000+07:00Stump...Back after the Christmas / New Year break?...Stump...<BR/><BR/>Back after the Christmas / New Year break?<BR/><BR/>My question was general and did not prefer either side in the conflict. The question posed relates to collateral damage and what is "acceptable", if anything.Rob Baitonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05122219639222126602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136987847943346639.post-84326521830066815202009-01-08T12:11:00.000+07:002009-01-08T12:11:00.000+07:00"there's a HUGE difference between unintentionally..."there's a HUGE difference between unintentionally killing civilians and intentionally striking a school, because the Palestinians you're hunting just happen to take shelter there."<BR/><BR/>Hey Brett.. careful you will trip in your own words..HAMAS deliberately fires rockets into civilian areas and sponsors suicide bombers to kill as many civilians as possible. Israel at least "goes thru the oigalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17158225677233340849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136987847943346639.post-29639675455843065052009-01-08T08:58:00.000+07:002009-01-08T08:58:00.000+07:00Brett...Always :DBrett...<BR/><BR/>Always :DRob Baitonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05122219639222126602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136987847943346639.post-7256180205010967032009-01-08T06:30:00.000+07:002009-01-08T06:30:00.000+07:00Where did the term 'acceptable collateral damage' ...Where did the term 'acceptable collateral damage' come from anyway? I have a feeling that it might have first been used (in the media, at least) during one of the Iraq Wars. In any even, there's a HUGE difference between unintentionally killing civilians and intentionally striking a school, because the Palestinians you're hunting just happen to take shelter there. <BR/><BR/>The US walked the lineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136987847943346639.post-33933748159726991762009-01-07T15:23:00.000+07:002009-01-07T15:23:00.000+07:00Tikno...I guess that is my point. I do not think t...Tikno...<BR/><BR/>I guess that is my point. I do not think that innocent men, women, and children are acceptable collateral damage.<BR/><BR/>Nevertheless, the lack of real outrage at the killing of innocents is disturbing. <BR/><BR/>I believe that Israel has a right to self-defense if Hamas is going to continue to fire rockets into Israel. <BR/><BR/>However, if Israel is going to pursue this ideaRob Baitonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05122219639222126602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136987847943346639.post-43395678140085213572009-01-06T04:28:00.000+07:002009-01-06T04:28:00.000+07:00There's no "acceptable" in conflict area, none car...There's no "acceptable" in conflict area, none care about the damage, perhaps including human life.Tiknohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05733973438543735098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136987847943346639.post-78419463909531843232009-01-03T04:49:00.000+07:002009-01-03T04:49:00.000+07:00Brett...I thought this posting might draw you out ...Brett...<BR/><BR/>I thought this posting might draw you out of your post Christmas / New Year slumber ;)<BR/><BR/>Oxymoron, yes! I agree that there is nothing acceptable about killing innocent people and I guess that was my point.<BR/><BR/>Why is it that people are not jumping up and down about this? Why is there nothing but a little rhetoric here and there but nothing really condemning the Rob Baitonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05122219639222126602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136987847943346639.post-484129903997543282009-01-02T18:49:00.000+07:002009-01-02T18:49:00.000+07:00"Acceptable collateral damage" is an oxymoron. The..."Acceptable collateral damage" is an oxymoron. There is nothing acceptable about killing innocent people, especially children. <BR/><BR/>My suggestion: take the US-funded planes and weapons off Israel and make them fight with home made rockets and stones. It might not bring peace, but it would be a hell of a lot less disturbing than this mess.Bretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03076930094881915831noreply@blogger.com