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From: tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu (Tom Tedrick)
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Subject: Re: USS Liberty - part II (long)
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 13:29:10 EST
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In article <3381@sun.uucp> cramer@sun.UUCP (Sam Cramer) writes:
[a very interesting article about the Liberty incident.]

I don't know much about this particular incident, but in war time
such incidents are almost invariably due to mistakes rather than
intention. Anytime something like this happens you can almost
bank on the fact that someone has screwed up somewhere.

If the history of war were rewritten with a view to the role
played by mistakes and miscalculations a lot of things would
be clearer. For example the real danger of nuclear war is not from
an intentional, calculated first strike but a series of blunders.
Both WW1 and WW2 resulted from mistakes, miscalculations, and
misunderstandings, for example.