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The trend in war in the last 100 years has seen a dramatic increase in civilian death... why is this tolerated? Angela


Answer

Constantin von Barloewen: There are legal regulations to protect civilians during war, which are penetrated again and again. One may not forget that the conflicts between national states decreased in the last 30 40 years, however the ethnical religious conflicts, which increased civil war like and acts of terror. And that, naturally, brings with itself that the civil society took up ever more, but if you consider that in the last struggles with Lebanon the Israeli side used also cluster bombs against civilians, whereby naturally the Hisbollah was substantially military weaker than the Israeli side and therefore the civilians, used as a shield. And the Israeli side, how the weapons were supplied from Americans probably, only with the restriction to take consultation the American government before using the bombs, but it was penetrated and cluster bombs were used against civilians. There are always abuses. War is actually an absurdity. As I said, war leads never to victory, war leads never to peace, war leads only to victory and victory leads not to peace. (???) Whether the civilian population is pulled in or not, is connected with the fact that the national struggles could be regulated, still somehow legally, by ever more the ambush come more over the ethnical-religious civil wars, also in the Yugoslavia war for example, in the Kosovo, where ever more civilians were pulled in. It is digusting, but it is unfortunately a historical fact in the course of the mechanization of the wars.