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@stephen1 wrote:
Now whose setting rules of engagement? :wink: Chill away, and have a great evening.
Stephen1
Engagement? We haven’t even locked lips yet. Oh and I love emeralds..but anything sparkly will suffice! :wink:
Engagement? We haven’t even locked lips yet. Oh and I love emeralds..but anything sparkly will suffice! :wink:
I’m moving to fast, then? My exuberance will prove my undoing yet. Hmm, something sparkly…let me think.
@stephen1 wrote:
Engagement? We haven’t even locked lips yet. Oh and I love emeralds..but anything sparkly will suffice! :wink:
I’m moving to fast, then? My exuberance will prove my undoing yet. Hmm, something sparkly…let me think.
A length of tinsel..I love glittery nonsense..it’s the magpie in me. :wink:
@esmeralda wrote:
On the day that Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has refused to enter a plea to charges of war crimes at the UN tribunal in The Hague, I ask, can there be such a thing as a ‘War Crime’ when – as the saying goes – ALL is fair in love and war?
Karadzic counters that he is immune from prosecution under the terms of a deal made with former US peace envoy Richard Holbrooke..claims laughed at by Holbrooke, but whether truthful or no, can there be such a thing as a fair war? One man’s atrocity is another man’s victory.
Leaving aside the issue of Karadzic, is it preposterous to suggest that waging a war is morally correct but that acts of genocide within that war are repugnant?
What is the object of a war other than to impose and destroy all objections to that imposition?
Why am I wittering on?
Does anyone care?
Help, doctor!a good question. where do we draw the line in this case. is all fair in love and war. well it is if you are unfortunate enough to be on the front line having to kill or be killed. but… how come the polititions and warring army generals never even get close to the actual dirty end of their power and glory ambitions.
strangeley as it seems.
when a man kills ten men he is a murderer, and a butcher. he is castigated and jailed.
when a man [or his soldiers] murder a million peole he is a man who will figure in the history books and be remembered. hitler, poll pot, mugabe etc.
and their ultimate aim is to get their name in the history books. so as long as we acknowlege these megolamaniacs the more they will continue to do these horrors.@waspish wrote:
@esmeralda wrote:
On the day that Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has refused to enter a plea to charges of war crimes at the UN tribunal in The Hague, I ask, can there be such a thing as a ‘War Crime’ when – as the saying goes – ALL is fair in love and war?
Karadzic counters that he is immune from prosecution under the terms of a deal made with former US peace envoy Richard Holbrooke..claims laughed at by Holbrooke, but whether truthful or no, can there be such a thing as a fair war? One man’s atrocity is another man’s victory.
Leaving aside the issue of Karadzic, is it preposterous to suggest that waging a war is morally correct but that acts of genocide within that war are repugnant?
What is the object of a war other than to impose and destroy all objections to that imposition?
Why am I wittering on?
Does anyone care?
Help, doctor!a good question. where do we draw the line in this case. is all fair in love and war. well it is if you are unfortunate enough to be on the front line having to kill or be killed. but… how come the polititions and warring army generals never even get close to the actual dirty end of their power and glory ambitions.
strangeley as it seems.
when a man kills ten men he is a murderer, and a butcher. he is castigated and jailed.
when a man [or his soldiers] murder a million peole he is a man who will figure in the history books and be remembered. hitler, poll pot, mugabe etc.
and their ultimate aim is to get their name in the history books. so as long as we acknowlege these megolamaniacs the more they will continue to do these horrors.The day that wars are to be fought in single handed combat, by the political instigators rather than their foot soldiers, they will cease.
..And I agree with every word you say, Waspish.
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