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Andrew Stroehlein @astroehlein
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If you say:

“Using torture is fine, because we’re fighting terrorists.”

“Killing civilians is acceptable, because we’re fighting terrorists.”

“Bombing hospitals is allowed, because we’re fighting terrorists.”

Then you’d probably make a pretty good terrorist.
If you're willing to do anything to win the war...

violate international law...

break your own country's laws...

suspend your own moral code...

then what "civilization" are you fighting for exactly?
I guess there are fundamentally 2 kinds of "fights" then. One is a fight for a nation, a religion, a political group or an ethnic group, regardless of ideals. And the other is a fight for a set of universal ideals, regardless of group identity.
Fighting for the latter is harder, because you not only have to fight for those ideals, you also have to live up to them.
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