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  • From: Tom Caswell <derpimpkar AT yahoo.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] the cowards at the Pentagon
  • Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:52:22 -0800 (PST)

You can't go wrong with Simpsons.
 
Tom

Rowland Smith <rowland AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
All this talk of killing is really making me hungry - anyone up for a
monster steak this weekend?

Rowland


Alan MacHett wrote:

>James Dasher said:
>
>
>>Leaving enemy soldiers critically wounded still gives the enemy
>>latitude to make some last effort that could harm you or your soldiers
>>- pulling a trigger, throwing a grenade, activating a bomb, or even
>>speed-dialing on the cell phone to warn others. When that happens,
>>your soldiers die. The best way to avert such a catastrophe is to
>>kill, not wound, an enemy.
>>
>>
>>
>
>just a short comment on this last point:
>
>Standard military theory promotes injuring the enemy. It's even part of
>US Army Ranger doctrine. Injured soldiers slow the enemy. Every assault
>soldier (the ones actively engaged in warfare -- infantry, artillery,
>etc.) requires approximately 10 support personnel; injured soldiers only
>exascerbate those figures. Injured soldiers have to be carried and cared
>for by their comrades. Injured soldiers also tend to scream in pain,
>which has a nice psychological effect on the enemy. Better to nearly kill
>them than to kill them.
>
>--Alan
>
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