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gbaikie — (archived)

"How you save your own neck does matter, especially when the context of "saving your neck" is a war that you yourself started. We chose to put our necks into the noose in the first place."

We didn't start this war. Iraq started it by invading Kuwait.

"The context of this whole discussion about napalm is the propaganda used to sell the war, that American forces would fight an enlightened, civilized war. If that's our promise, then we can expect to gain or lose points on killing style."

I say let the French gather points in the category of "killing style". We don't need them nor want them. What we want is low casualities. First, in regard of civilians, then in US soldiers, and finally in enemy soldiers.
When the situation is such that enemy combatants are deliberately mixed in with civilians, US soldiers become the higher priority. Low casualities is the one of results you want, getting this done, isn't as simple as you apparently think.

"We set that standard ourselves, so there's no point whining now about getting dinged for failing to live up to our own standard. We're hoist on our own petard."

If we followed your standards, then more US soldiers would die, more civilians would die, and more enemy soldiers would die. Whether or not we get "dinged" is relatively unimportant.

"I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. Smells like napalm."

I have noticed that you love this smell.

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