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Originally Posted by cmac2012
Horse padookey. We hold suicide bombers in contempt for violating the "civilized" code of war, Tallyban for not wearing uniforms, for targeting civilians. This gives us moral authority to clean house, one way or 'tuther.
That door swings both ways. We need to avoid war crimes, things like spraying potent herbicide on our adversary's forests, or using chemicals like white phosphorous on civilians. We need to avoid them strenuously.
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And how far will your moral authority get you? Did someone slap the Taliban for what they did? Doubtful. What did your moral authority do for the people that got blown up? Did it even supply a band-aid to the effort? Nope. Let me put a gun to your head and demand money and you tell me about moral authority and see if I put it down. We clean house becuase we have the power. Moral authority doesn't do much. Tell me about moral authority in place we got out tails kicked like Somalia and Vietnam. Yep, we had moral high ground but what did it get us again?
Moral authority is like going into a football game when the other team is playing with a different set of rules and there is no referee to give them a penalty. Does it help? Your team shows up to play with NFL rules and my team shows up with armour and guns. First thing we do is shoot the ref. Now, what do you do? Still play NFL rules while we don't? Did moral authority help the people who died in the Bataam Death March or the Hanoi Hilton? Tell them about moral authority and see if it changes much of what happened. I suspect we punished some of the officers in the march while I can't remember what happened to the officers in charge of the Hanoi Hilton. Can you refresh my memory on that?