Re: The Westerland Massacre

Mark David (madavid@ottawa.net)
Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:44:36 +0000

> and in the final calculation, assuming that sacrificing the 2 million
> people living on westerland saved an equivalent number of soldiers from
> dying in battle later in a drawn-out conflict, which would you rather have?

Without question the soldiers. It was a stragetically superior
descision to allow the attack, but by doing so, threw out any notion
of moral superiority. The commander becomes just another noble
willing to use the lives of people.

-== MB ==-== EVA ==-== MI ==-== Gundam ==-

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