Theos-Talk Archives (June 1997 Message tl00278)

On Sat, 14 Jun 1997 11:23:41 -0400 (EDT) "Patrick Alessandra Jr."
<apriorip@earthlink.net> writes:
>>          Is it not that in Bosnia we had a civil war? Wars are never
>>pretty and compassinate and peaceful.
>
>     Yes, quite right, the reason for the war and it's continuity,
>though, is because one side is effectively defenseless (disarmed),
>thus we have had genocide and this was the choice of the western
>European nations in order to prevent the war from spreading to them.
>
>P

And neither would removing the guns do much good.  In two other recent
genocides (Cambodia and Rwanda), much, if not most, of the killing was
done with swords.