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It's very cosy to tell ourselves we don't actually target civilians, but as others have already pointed out, they end up just as dead. And part of the same mindset is to demonize terrorists, but face it, they would need to be raving lunatics to attack only military targets when it is both safer and more effective to attack civilians. Perhaps a small reminder is in order too: namely that those civilians' votes are the reason military forces are adventuring abroad in the first place...
There is also something bizarre about the way we can be filled with self-righteous anger at even a perceived threat against us, and yet expect our victims to calmly accept the deaths of many thousands of their people.
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