- XYZ Deploying DU and white phosphorus with the knowledge of those effects is tantamount to deploying them with those intentions...
- ABC I disagree, though to get into my reasons would involve some pretty dry and abstract ethical reasoning. I agree that to deploy DU and white phosphorus with knowledge of the effects is morally bad. (Though I'd leave out white phosphorus and just stick with DU; it's really quite a different case and is nowhere near the same league as chemical weapons.) I just think there's qualitative difference between the use of the them versus 'conventional' weapons which needs to be maintained else we end up in unhelpful reductionism.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
US, Britain and Israel have used chemical weapons within the last 10 years... Kind of..
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