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Article: Blood on our hands in Iran-Iraq war
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 15, 1987
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The arms-for-hostages deal may be the most immoral action in
which the U.S. government has ever engaged, worse in its own way even
than the dropping of the atomic bomb.
The use of the bomb in August, 1945, had at least the numerical
justification that far more people would have died in an American
invasion of Japan than died in the two raids. (In my moral
perspective, the end does not justify the means and the bombings were
immoral.)
But what numerical proportion can be found between releasing a
few hostages and the internal genocide that is taking place in Iran?
The word genocide has been used inappropriately so often that is
has lost much of its meaning. But what other term is ...