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| An interesting and quite valid interpretation of the wartime arguments over ethics suggests an overriding "unselfconsciousness" among the strategists, politicians, and military leaders. | | An interesting and quite valid interpretation of the wartime arguments over ethics suggests an overriding "unselfconsciousness" among the strategists, politicians, and military leaders. |
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− | <blockquote>''Secure in their sense of having a job to do, no one appears to have questioned the relation between the carrying out of that job and the moral and political world-order in which the job was created.''</blockquote><ref>Barrie Paskins and Michael Dockrill, '''The Ethics of War''', (Minneapolis: | + | <blockquote>''Secure in their sense of having a job to do, no one appears to have questioned the relation between the carrying out of that job and the moral and political world-order in which the job was created.''<ref>Barrie Paskins and Michael Dockrill, '''The Ethics of War''', (Minneapolis: |
− | University of Minnesota Press, 1979), p. 246.</ref> | + | University of Minnesota Press, 1979), p. 246.</ref></blockquote> |
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| Both this lack of general reflection and the sense that bombing was a job or even a duty are further emphasized in that operational | | Both this lack of general reflection and the sense that bombing was a job or even a duty are further emphasized in that operational |