My position is a lot easier to understand than yours.
I deeply regret any loss of life.
Unfortuantely, at times people die. All deaths are sad. Not all are evil. There is a vast difference between accident and murder, which I hope even you can recognize.
I am against the deliberate targeting of innocent civilians. I am against intentionally using woman and children as weapons or as victims of violence. That innocent people died in our bombing of German factories during WWII was very unfortunate, but not evil. IMO the firebombing of Dresden was evil becasue it intentionally targeted innocent people without, IMO, legitimate basis, though we aren't here to argue WWII.
If the US had simply rained down bombs indiscriminately in Shock and Awe without regard for where they landed or who tehy killed, that would have been evil. Making the utmost effort only to hit military or government targets, bombing at night when as many innocent people as possible were at home and in bed, was not evil. Yes, innocent people died, but that was not the intent, but a regretted byproduct of seeking to destroy legitimate military targets.
If you can't see the difference between this and deliberately getting on a bus which has not a single military person on board it or has any military or government significance and blowing it up with the express purpose of terrorizing a civilian population -- if you claim that you can't see that difference, you're either lying or sociopathic. |
