"Because its mostly not true."
True, there have been times when it wasn't true as it should have been, but the US military does make an effort to avoid civilian casualties. For example, during WWII the US would do it's bombing during the day in an attempt to hit military targets instead of civilian ones. Now true, it didn't help all that much given the technology of the day, but the US accepted a very high attrition rate to the bombers and crews in this attempt. However, that didn't mean that Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were congruent with that goal. To take a more modern example, look at Desert Storm. They were successful enough in their attempts to hit military targets instead of civilian ones that there wasn't all that much material for Hussein to use in his attempts to make the Coalition look like butchers. True, there were some civilian targets hit, but there were pretty minimal, despite Iraqi's positioning many of the targets in densely populated areas. Now the US also hit alot of infrastructure during that war, resulting in civilian suffering after the war, probably the biggest argument that the US should have rolled into Bagdad and rooted Hussein out, at least then we would have rebuilt those facilities. But that was a political decision, not a military one. |
