NZ academic: When "the West" kills innocent civilians, it is "qualitatively different". 📂 Archived Message Posted by Morrissey on November 17, 2021, 6:32 pm, in reply to "Aaron Maté Syria's My Lai? US massacred 70 civilians and covered it up" From: Morrissey Breen To: Robert Ayson, Victoria University of Wellington Professor of Strategic Studies Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 11:37 AM Some questions about your statements on RNZ National yesterday afternoon Dear Professor Ayson, Yesterday on RNZ National, you claimed that the terrorism in Paris and above the Sinai “reflects a clear intention to target and kill innocent civilians, to cause great shock and fear”. You also stated that when “the West” kills innocent civilians, it is “qualitatively different”. Could you please explain how you would categorize the intentions of the United States’ strategists when they decided to attack hospitals and kill patients and medical staff, as in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004 and Kunduz, Afghanistan just last month. Thank you for your time, Morrissey Breen Northcote Point From: Robert Ayson, Victoria University of Wellington Professor of Strategic Studies To: Morrissey Breen Thu Nov 19, 2015, 11:50 AM Dear Morrissey Thanks for your email. If you have information which shows that the United States was deliberately targeting medical staff and innocent patients I would be interested to see it. I don’t believe that is what they are intending, and I think this makes the comparison with the Paris terrorism problemmatic. But those in the US and similar countries who are making decisions about the use of force and the armed forces personnel who undertake these attacks can and do get targeting wrong, and in seeking to target people and groups they believe to be in particular locations they sometimes make poor judgements about the wider consequences. regards Rob https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/prof-robert-ayson-explains-why-mass.html https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-vacuous-megan-whelan-was-no-match.html Message Thread: Aaron Maté Syria's My Lai? US massacred 70 civilians and covered it up - Keith-264 November 16, 2021, 10:06 pm Aaron Maté behind the LBN curve ;) - Raskolnikov November 17, 2021, 6:38 am NZ academic: When "the West" kills innocent civilians, it is "qualitatively different". - Morrissey November 17, 2021, 6:32 pm Blade Runners are human too....nm - Keith-264 November 17, 2021, 6:35 pm I thought they were androids dreaming of electric sheep - Tomski November 19, 2021, 8:22 pm Re: I thought they were androids dreaming of electric sheep - Tomski November 20, 2021, 1:31 am « Index   Searching