[lit-ideas] Re: The Surgical Strike Option
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:47:40 -0330
When may we expect you to apply it?
Cheers, Walter
Walter C. Okshevsky
Memorial University
Quoting Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I fail to see the reasonableness of the moms/dads/little kids argument.
> Applying Kant's categorical imperative to this argument, we must face the
> following:
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> We should not retaliate against the Japanese who attacked us on December 12,
> 1941 because moms/dads/little kids will eventually be killed.
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> We should not help the British against the Germans in WWII because German
> moms/dads/little kids will eventually be killed.
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> We should not go after Al Quaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan because
> moms/dads/little kids will also be killed.
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> In fact something just the opposite seems to be operative. We are outraged
> because they came after our moms/dads/little kids; so we retaliate.
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> With the doctrine of preemption, we become convinced that a nation or
> paramilitary force will harm our moms/dads/little kids unless we engage in
> preemption.
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> Lawrence
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Eric Yost
> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 9:42 AM
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [lit-ideas] The Surgical Strike Option
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> Marlena: I imagine we'll be told they are
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> 'surgical strikes'...but they'll be as
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> surgical as the ones in Iraq are/have been--and
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> lots of moms/dads/little kids are
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> going to be hurt/killed/maimed.
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> Eric: Despite the obvious need to debate the
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> ethics of the Iranians using their population as a
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> human shield for nuke sites, as well as the ethics
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> of striking versus not striking...here's some
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> information about the likely area:
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> [http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/040812.htm]
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> Natanz--250 kms south of Tehran--is a nuclear
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> facility, the previously secret existence of which
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> was disclosed by the National Council of
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> Resistance of Iran (NCRI) an Iranian opposition
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> group in August 15, 2002.[19] Satellite imagery
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> made available in December 2002 indicated that
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> Natanz may be used as a gas centrifuge facility
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> for uranium enrichment.
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> Looking at the photo in the Telegraph article
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> Lawrence cited gives no clue about the population
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> of the area around Natanz. I was reduced to
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> looking on mapquest ("Find great hotel deals in
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> Natanz Iran!") and it showed no towns or cities
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> near Natanz, the closest being a place called
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> Mahabad, about 15 miles away. But what does
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> Mapquest know?
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> Anyone know how to find about the moms/dads/little
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> kids resident in Natanz? There are about 300
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> people working in the Bushehr Reactor site, and
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> probably no little children. Both appear isolated,
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> as opposed to the sites located in medium- and
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> large-size cities.
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