Blaming your enemy for the deaths of enemy children your own weapons killed is sophistry.
I don't agree, at least not as a universal statement. It may often be sophistry but it isn't automatically so.
If you are attacked, and are at war, and make reasonable efforts to avoid civilian deaths but the enemy uses them as human shields, fires rockets from hospitals, orphanages, schools, next to UN bunkers etc. Then I think the blame for the deaths attaches more to them then to you.
It may not even just be human shields, but rather forcing the civilians to stay in a certain place, combined with deliberate deception to lure an attack. If Hezbollah rounds people up, puts them in places that would not be assumed to have civilians, forces them to stay there, launches rockets from there, and Israel attacks, the blame falls even more squarely on Hezbollah. |
