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Well. Time to award another Marxist Moron Award. Dana Pico has the story
A liberal friend of mine in the 90s complained during one of our seemingly endless conflicts that “We did the flyin’ while the bad guys did the dyin’,” combitching that we just weren’t fighting fair! For some cockamamie reason, she seemed to think that military conflicts should be fair. Could someone show me a drill sergeant who would train his soldiers that a fair fight was a good idea?
I had assumed that such a cockamamie idea about fighting fair in warfare was limited to her — that friend of mine departed for her eternal reward several years ago — but nope, we have the great military strategist Sophia A. McClennen, Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. She writes on the intersections between culture, politics, and society.
The end of the fair fight
There used to be at least a pretense of following rules in conflict. The conflict in Gaza proves that’s gone
By Sophia A McClennen | Saturday, January 13, 2024 | 5:30 AM EST
The history of human conflict has always included a set of rules, regulations, and ethical considerations to be followed to keep the fight fair. Whether on the playground or on the battlefield, all societies have a sense of a line that shouldn’t be crossed. Comedians are meant to punch up, not down. Schools have anti-bullying rules. Military conflict should limit civilian casualties. Many of these guidelines, like the Geneva Conventions, have been codified into international humanitarian law.
UGH! I ponder why this walking brain donor does not understand that “fairer wars” would ensure a war, once commenced, would never end…….. that would mean more killing, more suffering……..and so on.
The only fair fight is when your a$$ is the only one that walks away.
Where to start…Well, the History of Warfare never included the first, smallest inkling of “fighting fair”. The only thought of those truly engaged in any sized warfare has been “Survive”. It’s those at home who have time for such philosophizing who think of “fairness”. And that only started about 125-150 years ago, around the same time as Marx and the invention of the camera (which led to the invention of the “modern ‘journalist'”). Hmmm