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April 21, 2003
Mistakes were made
I started the blog for a pair of purpi (no, that isn't "purple" plural): A) to get my political musing down without annoying my co-workers and B) to practice my writing skills. When I looked at my site recently, I noted that it had been a while since I posted anything of length or note. I went to work and thought...
I came home, looked at my E-mail and sat down to write. What came out at 3am qualifies as decent writing, but sloppy thinking. The specific post was on 14 April 2003...
I returned home from Santa Cruse with a note in my in-box from a reader taking me to task for my comments. In a very gentle way he pointed out that other cultures too have had prohibitions against attacking civilians. He pointed at a specific article which rather handily disproves that part of the thesis. Then, of course, there are all those pesky (for my thesis, not to mention for terrorists) Koranic injunctions against the same...
It gets worse! Not only are all these injunctions found outside the West; one finds professional armies all over the place! Indeed, one part of my thesis only stands to account for itself: professional armies tend to mark themselves that way by doing what they can to not slaughter civilians.
I am going to nip off and bang my head against the wall...
Posted by Andrew at April 21, 2003 12:34 PM