Re: Terror in war

From: Jeff Richard <richaje_at_dvR7mapjTHWNXWavlqE9ZnFxrPZ-aj4459G9Kqg5VVU5-IgRw_bffGjdUrCpqjB5TzcO>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:31:54 -0000

> >Nazis? Both of these incidents were taken out of Thucydites'
>
> His name was Thucydi_d_es, moron.

Peter, fuck off.

> Actually 7.29. You might as well quote the sentence just before
> it which reads "The Thracians bursting into Mycalessus sacked
> the houses and temples and butchered the inhabitants, sparing
> neither youth [...]" making it clear that the atrocity was committed
> by them rather than "Athenians and their Thracian mercenaries".

Not correct. Read Victor Davis Hanson's commentaries on Thucydides and it is pretty clear that the Athenians permitted and oversaw the buchery by their Thracian mercenaries.

> Furthermore Thucydides explicitly says the city was assaulted
> at daybreak and the city easily captured because the inhabitants
> did not expect anybody coming in so far from the sea. Even if
> the facts were as you said they were, I fail to see how this even
> remotely justifies a potrayal of Kallyr as a Red-headed bitch of
> Beslan.

I don't saw she was a bitch or even evil. But these are perfectly normal tactics in both guerilla and tribal warfare.

Jeff