"My Lai & Guantanamo with Lidice & Belsen is unspeakably contemptible."
Me, I'm afraid Mike - wh contemptable? All are the deliberate incarceration and massacre of human beings - differing only in the extent to they were carried out.===

Oops ~ sorry Jim; had no wish to quarrel.

I think it was Hegel, OR ONE OF THOSE TEUTONIC LOT ANYHOW, WHO WROTE SOMEWHERE WHAT HAS ALWAYS SEEMED TO ME AN ATOM OF SENSE IN ALL THAT IMPENETRABLE *METaphysical jungle, that there comes a point where a quantative difference transmutes into a qualitative difference. This seems to me an instance; ML & Guant were horrible to be sure; but surely not in the same discursive realm of evil as the other two?

~M~

*[bugger these cap locks that will FIGHT me: don't you just hate it when inanimate objects will just bloody FIGHT you!]