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Originally Posted by theking
Well...if you were a student of war as I have been...you would learn that in virtually every one of the more than 14,000 recorded "wars
"...civilians were direct targets. This applied big time in the Second World War...by all combatants and to a lesser extent in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. In the Iraqi conflict civilians are not being directly targeted other than by the "insurgents/foreign fighters".
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Civilians not being specifically targetted does not make their deaths any less tragic, nor do practices of past wars.
When innocents die, the right response is not "well, chances are they were assholes anyway", nor is it "well, in the past, everyone killed them", nor is it even "it's unintended but unavoidable collateral damage". When talking about human lives being lost, one should first and foremost acknowledge the tragedy of it.