#civilians

Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

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If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians. ↗

— Stuart Symington

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The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#battle #because #below #caught #civilians

Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

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Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#accords #civilians #geneva #international #international law

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

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The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#civilians #concrete #harm #identify #independent

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity. ↗

— George Pataki

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At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire. ↗

— Charles Rangel

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