Al D'Amato Quotes
Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.
The Minister equates the unintended consequences of war and civilian casualties with a terrorist retaliation which has as its purpose the killing of as many civilians as possible. The proliferation of terrorism complicated the ethics of counter terrorism. In the case of Palestinian terrorists their tactics included using civilian facilities---schools, hospitals, homes---from which to launch rocket attacks or to store weapons or hide terrorists. Under international laws of war, a civilian facility and the civilians in it become legitimate military targets the minute that weapons are stored in or fired from that location or that location is used for planning, training, equipping or manufacturing of military material. Palestinian terrorists claim that even though civilians were harmed in legitimate, legal attacks on military targets, a proper response is to send suicide bombers into civilian areas and preparing the explosives with nails and rat poison to cause as much pain as possible.
The French had agreed that once the Dutch started the uprising, they would send French troops to support the revolution. The French Revolutionary government was ideologically opposed to the Dutch Monarchy of the House of Orange on their border nor did they want the British influence which existed by virtue of the support England gave to William V and the Orangists. When the uprising started, the French kept their word and sent in an army of invasion to support the revolutionary government. See {639776}.
Alfonse Marcello D'Amato is an American lawyer and former New York politician. A Republican, he served as United States Senator from New York from 1981 to 1999. He subsequently founded a lobbying firm, Park Strategies.
