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Article: Excuses, excuses.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
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- August 27, 2007
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Ralph Peters's article on ethnic cleansing ("Better Than Genocide," August 13) is a disappointment. The moral truth it contains is trivial, and can be captured in a single sentence: It is better to dispossess a man of his home and property than it is to murder him. The policy implication is equally trivial, and captured with equal concision: We should allow non-lethal ethnic cleansing, even as we lament it, if the only alternative is to allow genocide. Peters would have an interesting ...