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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (588124)	9/29/2010 8:07:59 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571399

I am willing to ignore my original position in order to go on this tangential discussion with you because it is just as interesting to me. We largely agree on your response. I want to explore one bothersome aspect, which I have bolded below. >>>Are you saying that the Taliban targets and kills more civilians than other sources, that more civilians are killed incidentally by Taliban attacks, or that the Taliban is more culpable for civilian deaths than other sources? "The first and the last, and possibly the 2nd are true. But what I was actually saying is that they kill more civilians. That includes both those that they intentionally target (compared to almost zero for the US, and actually zero if you count only those targeted as part of policy rather than by particular Americans acting in a criminal manner), and those that they kill accidentally. I'm not saying the 2nd number is larger as a hard an fast fact (although I suspect it is), but that the combination is larger." In what way(s) are they culpable outside #1 and #2?