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| | Martin Shaw, reply to Barry Buzan (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Barry Buzan's case for relegitimating the explicit targeting of civilians in war ('Who may we bomb?', Prospect, December 2001, www.prospect-magazine.co.uk) is quite disgraceful. |
 | | The whole basis of Buzan's argument is therefore simply irrelevant to the principal, moral reason for scrupulously maintaining the distinction between combatants and non-combatants, notwithstanding the undoubted practical difficulties of enforcing this distinction to which he refers. |
 | | The practice of bombing in the Second World War and the planning of nuclear targeting during the Cold War, which Buzan appears to see as precedents for a looser attitude to the protection of civilians, utterly disregarded the international conventions on war, which enshrined this distinction. |
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