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University Daily Kansan
'Rules Save Lives'
War Laws Called Practical
By MARY FROJEN
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DOUG EVERLEY
Kansan Staff Writers
By MARY FROJEN
The laws of war have practical roots and come from motives of both selfishness and humankindism and the value that human beings can transfer considerations of hawk or dove in the Vietnam war, Telford Taylor, professor of law at Columbia University, said in a speech sponsored by WI the KU School of Law at Auditorium Thursday evening.
"Although frequently violated, these ruled have saved millions of lives and more than forty years," Taylor said. "They do more good than harm. They do better."
Taylor, who was chief counsel for the prosecution at the Nuremberg war-crime trials, recently wrote a book titled "Nuremberg and Vietnam. An American Tragedy," in which he compares the trials of German and Vietnamese war criminals with American policies in Vietnam.
Taylor said the laws of war had two aims: to separate belligerent from neutral nations and to prevent combatants. They are also necessary from the standpoint of effective military operations, he
Two common American attitudes about the Vietnam war and the civilian deaths at My Lan prompted Taylor to write the
"The first of these," he said,
"is the conception that 'war is war,' that since the Communists are ruthless enough to use women and children, anything American troops do to Viet-namese is justified.
"The other and opposing idea is that 'all war is evil,' that there no point in trying to draw a conclusion from another. This attitude says that since all wars are equally unimportant to do but protest them all."
The reactions to the Callley verdict, Taylor said, came from groups of opinions; the first hawk and the second dove. He said that he disagreed with the emotions of others. Callley verdict was too harsh.
"Calley was a man of limited perception and had no reason not to attack him," the enemy at My Lai. "Taylor said, 'The pressure of the time,' the pressure of the time,"
"My Lai has been a mirror—we have looked in it and it hasn't looked
constant emphasis on body count and Calley's imperfect training were mitigating circumstances.
good."
"When women and children are used to throw grenades, a My Lai is inevitable.
"My Lail has been a mirror—Americans have looked in it and it has looked good. Whether or not our acts have been legally criminal in nature, their effects in terms have been ghastly."
Taylor said that the special nature of the Vietnam war frustrated standard tactics. The result, he said, was the 1985 American decision to use nuclear weapons on erased villages and led to the evacuation of whole populations from their native areas.
"This approach has produced a large number of soldiers and wounded and huntered many American Soldiers to believe that Vietnam lovers are also wounded."
One positive aspect of thehibition experience is that she saw that she could how many people were aware of the nature and consequences of the exhibition.
"Some people feel my La Mai was a mere flyspeck in the destruction of the city," the outlaw was a transference of guilt to the general public."
"What one must remember is that it would have been important to give the Cauley Colley During World War I and World War II, many American soldiers were tried for rape and were tried in Germany and France."
My Lai will occur, Taylor said but what Americans should be prepared for is we have done so little to repair what has happened on a larger scale.
"Compare, for example, the cost of our plans and bombs," he said, "with the money we have spent on hospitals and refuge relief it is shattering. This stresses the touch and touches everyone."
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