Reading Impartially
You know, I have to say that responses to my most recent posts drove home how careful I need to be to read things impartially and not let my preconceptions color things, not to mention the importance of subsequently writing in honest and impartial ways.
Rhetoric is cute, but it doesn’t help the cause of truth.
Check what I wrote here:
Rightly or wrongly, the use of white phosphorus bombs is not presently banned by any treaty, and they are classed as a conventional weapon both by standard usage and by international law.
That was based on my reading this paragraph in the Wikipedia Article:
Use of white phosphorus is not specifically banned by any treaty, however the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (Protocol III) prohibits the use of incendiary weapons against civilian populations or by air attack against military forces that are located within concentrations of civilians. The United States is among the nations that are parties to the convention but have not signed protocol III.
But that is not the same thing at all.
I think my point about distortions still stands; it just cuts both ways. Mea culpa.