Leaked Excerpt of
Debate from War College Lesson on War Crimes
Let’s be clear about this, future heroic defenders of all
that is good, democratic, loving and humane. You warriors in defense of liberty
and justice can bomb a facility in a militarily defended area so long as it
isn’t a hospital. You can murder entire families, crush their skulls , burn their
bodies and scatter the arms and legs of all occupants of that building, whether
they are men, women, children, in uniform or not, because they are in a
building in the militarily defended area of a defined enemy of all that is
good, peaceful and democratically profitable.
But:
if a person with,say, a crushed skull received as a result
of your heroic bombing of that nest of enemy evil-doers is rushed across the
street to a hospital where there might be some glue or surgical tape with which
to reconstruct the skull so that person might one day be able to feed itself or
move its bowels again, and you kill that person by bombing the hospital, that
is a war crime!
Uh…wait a minute prof…I can blow some poor bastard’s brains
out and have brain matter and puss running out of his ears and it’s okay if
he’s in a building identified by my commanders as enemy territory populated by
evil, monstrous, perverted terrorists, but if they drag his sorry, evil,
monstrous, perverted, animal ass to a hospital and try forcing that brain ooze
back into his head so that he might someday be able to pick his nose, wipe his
drool, or something and while they’re trying to save this sorry-assed rotten
bastard’s life I blow up that building and kill him, I’ve committed a war
crime?
Yes.
If I kill him in what I’m told is his terrorist home I’m a
hero , but if I kill his ass in what you tell me later is a hospital , I’m a
murderer?
Yes.
Uh..is it too late to switch my major to law or medicine?
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