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TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2002

"Sometimes, though, we treat the deliberate killing of civilians with reverence, or at least feel a special moral pride in our refusal to condemn it. The best examples are from American history. We have not forgotten that American Indians deliberately killed civilians, including children, and sometimes as a policy.

These acts were right, wrong, or morally indifferent. Which were they?

I can't see that they were morally indifferent, can you? Were they wrong? If so, they must have been awfully wrong, because they involved murdering children. Is that what we want to say?

I suggest not. I suggest the acts were terrible, cruel, and ultimately justified."

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Michael Neumann: Israelis and Indians (Counterpunch 4/9)