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Tom Brosz — (archived)

Blow up a bus knowing you're going to kill 20 people on it.

Drop a bomb on a suspected terrorist safe house, knowing there could be 20 people unconnected to your target affected.

Difference? One is called terrorism, one is called collateral damage.

Okay, much shorter and simpler:

- Trying to kill innocent civilians

versus

- Trying not to kill innocent civilians

I can't get any simpler without having to start drawing pictures. That I can't get a moral distinction across that an eight-year-old would get is a bit disturbing, and says something about a modern culture where the very concept of moral judgment has been confused beyond recognition.

Every Marine who is killed and wounded is a testament to the morals of our society, a society that is trying to reform Iraq, not annihilate it. We could have destroyed Fallujah instantly, and have been certain of the deaths of people like Zarqawi and others.

But we're trying not to kill innocent people.

Get it yet?

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