The fact is that we're taking all sorts of precautions to reduce the risk to innocent civilians as much as possible. Nothing is foolproof when you're talking about explosives and electronics, but the days of mass bombing civilian population centers in order to hit a few important targets are long over.

Contrast what we're doing to what the terrorists have been doing. When they attacked our embassies a few years ago, they did it by detonating truck bombs on crowded streets. There were hundreds of innocent bystanders killed and wounded in those attacks compared to a couple dozen American deaths. Likewise, they killed thousands of innocent civilians when they attacked the WTC and Pentagon. Frankly, I fail to see a lot of similarity between our tactics and theirs, and I really question the judgement of those who do.