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Originally Posted by kutulu
No, even that isn't that simple. We'll toss missiles at a supposedly legit target, even if we know that civilians are close enough to be killed as collateral damage, or as a result of an errant missile. It's an acceptable risk for us because we think it's more important to get the target, innocents be damned. Innocent people will be THE target of the terrorist attacks.
What the terrorist does is definitely worse but it's still shades of grey. I don't think our President and generals are losing too much sleep over it.
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Well what about the UN sanctions over Iraq? You know sanctions won't actually hurt Saddam, but they did manage to claim the lives of a half a million Iraqi children, all of whome are obviously innocent civilians. Not only did we not lose sleep over it, but we caluously bombed them and managed to kill even more civilians by mistake. While I do agree that there is a difference between killing civilians deliberatly and killing them because of neglagence....then end result is the same: innocent people are dead, and everyone else is scared of us because of what we did. That is terrorism.