Re: Amnesty Report: Hezbollah War Crimes
On Sep 14, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote:
Fair enough Doug, but the argument that Hezbollah’s attack were war
crimes would also lead one to the conclusion that the British
bombing campaign in WWII was a war crime (night bombing, which
reduced bombing accuracy so that the target became civilian
populations and nothing but). US daytime bombing was only a bit
more accurate. There is a serious case to be made that these WERE
war crimes. Elizabeth Anscombe did so very effectively. Juan Cole
has argued that Hezbollah’s missile attacks were war crimes from
the very first. But Cole also never ignored the massive
disproportion between the two sides, and never ignored who was the
aggressor. Amnesty’s (and HRW’s) evenhandedness stinks. Michael McIntyre
I’m not overlooking the disproportion between the two sides either. I
was only objecting to Cde Cox’s Buchenwald metaphor, which is so
disproportionate as to undermine his own case.