On 9/9/13 8:35 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > "pretty sure" does not equal "sure." When something is purported to be a > casus belli, the standard of proof is very high. You wouldn't impose the > death penalty on someone based on being "pretty sure." The standard of > proof here should be higher, because when you escalate a war, you're > imposing the death penalty on innocent civilians. > > >
What are you talking about? Nobody can be "sure". This is all about circumstantial evidence. In any case, in terms of the possibility of a false flag operation, I find something disgustingly Orientalist about this as if Muslims would kill their own women and children in order to provoke American intervention. It smacks of the accusation against the Vietnamese in the 1960s that they fight so hard because they don't place the same value in human life as Westerners. It is always the East that is fanatical. Please excuse me while I puke. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
