There's no defending killing innocent people who aren't involved in the fighting, but we can try our best to understand how it’s happening. In fact, I'd suggest this stuff is especially important to understand correctly.So why is the Arab response different when the USA drops a smart bomb on a suspected terrorist hideout, killing the target but also 4 innocents versus a bomber in the market blowing up a hundred innocents? The US is an indiscriminate murderer, while the bomber is a martyr.
I agree completely, but somehow the Arab world (and many others, to a lesser extent) has bought into the spin doctoring. It's hypocrisy thru and thru, but they're still celebrating the martyrs.It’s convenient to bolster anti-war sentiment with casual judgments and sweeping statements about this whole mess being equally to blame and equally wrong. But characterizing US forces as indiscriminate murderers is outrageous.
Yep, I don't think I can be indifferent about war. And if someone dare to do that in my backyard, you bet my guns will do the talking. Call it whatever you want.