The Bombing War

[Michael Bailey]

On Oct 17, 2013 6:14 PM, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A war is won when surrender is achieved. It's not a video game with
points for goals reached.
>
>

The canonical dispute would be between "just war" - by some set of
standards - in which, at least in the minds of the decision makers, there
might actually be a list of targets (all your base) which would determine
surrender - and Fiona's statement implying that all victories are Pyrrhic,
by noting that irreplaceable losses will certainly be accrued and what is
destroyed will be sadly missed after hostilities (John Kerry's experience
in Vietnam losing his best friend, eg)

However, as the little old Italian dude pointed out to Yossarian in
Catch-22, the identity of the winner may be disputable, along with the
nature of victory!

> On Thursday, October 17, 2013, Fiona Shnapple wrote:
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>> Who can ever win a war. Period.
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