Pat Robertson On War Tactics

[Khephra]

Are All Tactics Fair in War?

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CBN.com -- QUESTION: Is honor more important in war than shrewdness? I'm thinking of the soldiers from Iraq who pose as surrendering and then kill our troops. Is everything fair in love and war?

PAT ROBERTSON: If somebody invades your country, everything is fair. The idea of hiding behind civilians is brutal because you are sacrificing your civilians, and that is repugnant. In terms of ruses and in terms of shrewdness, if you were defending your nation, what would we do if somebody suddenly invaded the United States? We would be hitting them with everything we could. We wouldn't be playing by any Marcus of Queensbury rules. I can't fault the Iraqis on that one, but I can fault them on taking innocent men, women, and children and sticking them out ahead of their combat units, knowing that they are going to get killed, or forcing young boys to take guns and go out and shoot at the Americans, knowing that the Americans are going to them. That is an outrage.

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http://www.cbn.com/700club/askpat/BIO_033103.asp

[flyingfish]

1. I guess Pat Robertson's support of Charles Taylor's war tactics....

... does not count.
Especially when Taylor uses rape as a war tactic in Liberia and Robertson protests the US wanting to oust him because he is a "Christian" fighting "Islamic" terrorists.

Or that Robertson does not want to lose $8 million in mining contracts with Taylor and does not want to lose that money, so he really does not care what Taylor does to retain power.