In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.
It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.
In order to prosecute war, you have to take some risk.
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.