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| Authored by: saforrest on Tuesday, November 02 2004 @ 12:23 PM CST |
Any combatant is a legitimate target for opposition force in a war... but doesn't make it all right to kill...
It really seems to me that you're bending over backwards to find some means to excuse these remarks. I'm sympathetic; I think the Palestinian cause gets very bad press in Canada, and I haven't yet seen a good argument for why Elmasry is a violent extremist.
But being a "legitimate target" does not make someone "all right to kill"? Please.
If I consider someone a "legitimate target", that means I think I am allowed to shoot at him justly. If I shoot at someone I have to believe I have a good chance of killing him. So I believe someone to be a "legitimate target", how can I not think that person is "all right to kill"?
German soldiers were legitimate targets for French resistance force in WW2 [...], does not make it all right to kill Germans..
That's not a good analogy. You're making a distinction between German soldiers and "Germans" (presumably German civilians); Elmasry made no such distinction between Israeli soldiers and Israeli civilians.[ Parent ]
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