Make sure everyone you bomb is near a "militant" or a "terrorist"

I get really sick of this barbarian argument that state thugs have the right to fire missiles and drop bombs into a crowd as long as they think someone in the crowd has a gun or broke a law. This is the same logic that the US used to bomb their last wedding party and drop monstrous bombs on neighborhoods in Baghdad back when they were "decapitating the regime." You can see this same logic at work when "conservatives" claim that everyone in Abu Ghraib deserved to be tortured, a claim that requires one to wipe all the hypocritical "liberation" rhetoric out of the brain cells in order to lessen the trauma from ideological whiplash.

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Well, isn't this depressingly predictable. Thanks you so much, moral zeroes at Noosmacks for making my point.

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[Grrpy]

America is a country where prominent political figures, media personalities, and party pundits all agree that assasination and "sometimes" overt torture is permissible, practical, and necessary under certain circumstances. Bearing this in mind, why not use police sharpshooters to kill suspected drug dealers standing on the street corners of south-central Los Angelas? Why not? I mean, if it saves even one child from a lifetime of drug abuse isn't it worth it? Why not torture drug users to confess their supplier? Why not assassinate suspected Mafia kingpins and torture the underlings for information? Why not?
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[tex]

Because they're all hypocrites?

[Doc]

If you think you can do better, go visit your local recruiter and suit up.

The military kills people and breaks things. We prefer to do this on a clean field of battle without non-combatants. The insurgents are intentionally using civilians as shields, mosks as a "home base", ambulances to smuggle arms and as troop transports.

If we were the barbarians you make us out to be, we could have reverted to WWII tactics and turned the whole Ali Shrine inta a parking lot. That is not a boast, it's a logistical fact that one B-52 flyover would have ended it without risking our hypocritical necks.

The insurgents make the rules, we are forced to play within them.