If Traverse City Were Baghdad

An excerpt from an article on Military dual-use targeting -- Bombing Dual-Use Targets: Legal, Ethical, and Doctrinal Perspectives, by Kenneth R. Rizer, From: Air & Space Power Chronicles, May 2001

… Finally, the US Air Force has a vested interest in attacking dual-use targets so long as dual-use target destruction serves the double role of destroying legitimate military capabilities and indirectly targeting civilian morale. So long as this remains within the letter if not the spirit of the law and the Christian Just-War Ethic, the Air Force will cling to the status quo.

-- The full article can be found on the web:
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/Rizer.html

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977.

Article 54. Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population

2. It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as food-stuffs, agricultural areas for the production of food-stuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive.

*If Traverse City Were Baghdad* Dual-use Targets
Informational text for the Video clip. An excerpt from an article on Military dual-use targeting -- *Bombing Dual-Use Targets: Legal, Ethical, and Doctrinal Perspectives,* by Kenneth R. Rizer, From: Air & Space Power Chronicles, May 2001 … Finally, the US Air Force has a vested interest in attacking dual-use targets so long as dual-use target destruction serves the double role of destroying legitimate military capabilities and indirectly targeting civilian morale. So long as this remains within the letter if not the spirit of the law and the Christian Just-War Ethic, the Air Force will cling to the status quo. -- The full article can be found on the web: http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/Rizer.html Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977. Article 54. *Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population* 2. It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as food-stuffs, agricultural areas for the production of food-stuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive.


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