Word: defenseless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...circumstances be treated humanely." Among specific prohibitions: "collective penalties," such as burning villages that may harbor guerrillas. Moreover, the 1907 Hague Convention prohibits "the attack or bombardment, by whatever means, of towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended." Thus a B-52 bomber raid that strikes defenseless, invisible people below is no more lawful than Calley's gunning down of villagers standing in front of him. But if the planned target is militarily defended, the legal situation is different...
...organized, and no amount of pleading or remonstration could induce the attackers to desist. They were asked to cease in the name of freedom. They chanted on. They were asked to cease in the name of peace. They chanted more savagely. And even when their violence had crushed the defenseless freedoms of others in the audience, their chants of power thundered on, though victory had deprived them of their victims...
Gans died in poverty a few years later, but it would be inaccurate to list him or Peter Jackson as losers. They won the contests the white world let them fight, and died not defenseless before the world but unnecessary to it. Their affliction was not African lethargy but malignant neglect...
...forced-draft urbanization" in Vietnam than we used on the Nazis. Noam Chomsky (one of the few for whom I feel no contempt) writes, "By March 1969 the total level of bombardment had reached 130,000 tons a month-nearly two Hiroshimas a week in South Vietnam and Laos, defenseless countries." "Go easy on words like genocide," Henry Kissinger told students who visited him in the White House. "It is not the policy of the United States to bomb people." From the Kennedy Subcommittee on Refugees staff report: the target of the bombardment of Laos is "the economic and social...
...SOLDIEER BLUE is just another Hollywood whore, trying to redeem itself by faking a socially-conscious heart of gold. The film opens with a Chevenne attack on a U.S. Cavalry paymaster's detail and closes with a Cavalry attack on a peaceful and defenseless Chevenne village. But it is only tangentially concerned with such affairs. The bulk of the film is given over to a kind of Western Love Story in which a hard-as-nails white woman wanders about, and eventually falls in love, with a rather silly young soldier. Candice Bergen plays the foul-mouthed girl...