[lit-ideas] Re: War and Panic
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 17:54:57 -0330
Quoting Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>:
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>
> You take the neighbour's land and the neighbour comes and takes your land.
>
> Ursula
>
W: This seems to be an empirical generalization, be it well-corroborated or not.
But is it of any moral significance? (Sorry if I'm not following the direction
of this thread very carefully. Feel free to ignore.)
Walter Okshevsky
Memorial University
> david ritchie wrote:
>
> >
> > Consider the crusades. You take an army, invade the Holy Land,
> > rampage, burn, pillage, "teach them a lesson," win what would seem to
> > be a pretty complete victory and what happens? The believers return
> > for another round.
> >
> > Consider early siege warfare. Standard practice was to give those in
> > a castle a chance to surrender. If they refused, when the castle
> > fell everyone was put to the sword. Complete victory. Did this
> > prevent their friends and relatives from planning a counter-attack
> > sometimes generations hence?
> >
>
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