Sorry, I guess I did. But you know what the hell of it is? Islamic extremists think of mass murder as the will of God. Pershing just wanted them to quit killing his soldiers and the locals unfortunate enough to be caught in the crossfire. And at a head-count of forty-nine enemy soldiers, I'd say he made a wise choice.
Was it morally questionable? Sure, especially the way he used their own religeon against them (I would have thought that you guys would have pounced on me for that instead of mass murder).
But how questionable is it when you compare that to the other, far more hideous acts that have been perpatrated in the history of the world? When in this modern day men such as the ones Pershing ordered killed would throw acid on girls because they want to go to school or mutilate their genitals so other men wouldn't want to bed them?
I look at the statistics today and shake my head. How many have died in Iraq so far? A lot more than forty-nine. And that's not just soldiers (ours, theirs, don't matter). It's the civilians, too, that can't get the heck out of the way of an exploding car-bomb. To me that's a far more heinous sin than killing forty-nine men who themselves were killers.
Don't argue the point with me. The world is not black and white, and I'm sure as hell am not anywhere close to the whiter side of the scale. Don't get me wrong, I let small stuff slide. Hurt someone I love, though, and you'd better dig your own grave.
I apologize if this offends anyone, but... *shruggs* There you have it.
Was it morally questionable? Sure, especially the way he used their own religeon against them (I would have thought that you guys would have pounced on me for that instead of mass murder).
But how questionable is it when you compare that to the other, far more hideous acts that have been perpatrated in the history of the world? When in this modern day men such as the ones Pershing ordered killed would throw acid on girls because they want to go to school or mutilate their genitals so other men wouldn't want to bed them?
I look at the statistics today and shake my head. How many have died in Iraq so far? A lot more than forty-nine. And that's not just soldiers (ours, theirs, don't matter). It's the civilians, too, that can't get the heck out of the way of an exploding car-bomb. To me that's a far more heinous sin than killing forty-nine men who themselves were killers.
Don't argue the point with me. The world is not black and white, and I'm sure as hell am not anywhere close to the whiter side of the scale. Don't get me wrong, I let small stuff slide. Hurt someone I love, though, and you'd better dig your own grave.
I apologize if this offends anyone, but... *shruggs* There you have it.