Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate - First Things

Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate - First Things

Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate” was printed on the punch cards that fed data into IBM computers in the 1950s, when those primitive calculating machines could occupy the entire floor of a building. That admonition came to mind when, as has happened with depressing frequency over the past four decades, the just war tradition of moral analysis was folded, spindled, and mutilated—not to mention distorted, inverted, and rendered unrecognizable—in …

Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate

“Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate” was printed on the punch cards that fed data into IBM computers in the 1950s, when those primitive calculating machines could occupy the entire floor of a building. That [...]

Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate

Wikimedia Commons Operation Midnight Hammer was the first combat use of the 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) GBU-57 MOP. COMMENTARY: Three fallacies applied to the just war tradition when assessing the military action by Israel and the United States in Iran.