[lit-ideas] How We Fight

  • From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:03:07 -0500

Balancing Scarry is this essay from Foreign Affairs.


http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20061101faessay85608/colin-h-kahl/how-we-fight.html

How We Fight
Colin H. Kahl

Summary: Reports that U.S. troops may have killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, last November have renewed fears that the U.S. military routinely violates the laws of war. But is the Haditha incident the exception or the rule? In fact, U.S. compliance with noncombatant immunity in Iraq has been relatively high by historical standards, and it has been improving since the beginning of the war.

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