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These cruelties, therefore, would be simply revenge, not retaliation; for retaliation, as an element of the Law of War, and of Nations in general, implies the idea of thereby stopping a certain evil.
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Sumner distinguishes between revenge and legitimate retaliation under the Law of War.
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