GITMBOY
I've been to the sand box. I did not personally pull any triggers in combat, but I sure as hell did all I could to make sure as many enemy as possible were KILLED. This was a very diliberate action on my part, and I KNEW my actions contributed DIRECTLY to the death of enemy combatants, and I performed my duties with vigor and INTENT TO KILL......
......just like every other soldier the world has EVER seen.
Knuckle dragging morons like you argue against ALL military action. Yet when some butchering psychotic is in power, you offer NOTHING for dealing with it other than "sanctions". Moron. By the standards you use, there has NEVER been a single legit offensive military action. You actually believe that if we all gather around a camp fire and sing, the thugs of the world will behave better. IDIOT.
IDIOTS like you also frequently do the "If you attack Saddam, you HAVE TO also attack Mugabe..." mental diarrhea. Its like giving to charity. There is plenty of trash in the world, and we picked the one that got our attention, AS WE SHOULD. Its called combining a GOOD DEED with national interest.
I remember a few years ago U.S. behavior in the Korean War was back in the news. Some drooling idiots like YOU were saying the U.S. had machine gunned a bunch of civilans and it all got covered up by the usual evil U.S. conspiracy.......
.....funny thing is, is that I happened to have a 1950 copy of Time Magazine I had read a few months before. Strange cover up when they have a 20 page spread in Time. Also, for so bizarre reason, it was clear in Time "WHY" it happened. (a minor detail that you probably don't want to know about...).....
.....it seems that the Commie North Koreans/Chinese were dressing as refugees, and even mixing with refugees, in order to get into positions to launch attacks. The orders a commander WAS QUOTED IN TIME as giving were to the effect of "Wave them off, then if they keep coming, shoot over their heads, and if they still keep coming, shoot into them".
Sometime in the 1500s/1600s, european armies started to become more professional. This, combined with western ethics, produced the most MORAL military philosophy the world has EVER seen. It peeked in the 1800s, but has been under assault by leftist since the 1900s. Although it has NEVER been perfectly practiced (like most ideals....), western militaries make serious effort to fight COMBATANTS and COMBATANT ASSETS. Terrorists don't merely hide among civilians (which is legit), they use civilian cover to make attacks, WHICH IS THE LARGEST CRIME OF THIS CENTURY.
KEY POINT:
Anything that forces soldiers to be seriously worried that the car driving up to them with civilians in it might contain a bomb and suicide attacker FORCES soldiers to treat that car and its occupants as LETHAL THREATS of the most serious order. "WHEN", not "IF" innocents get killed, it aint the soldiers who pulled the triggers who are to blame, its the damn terrorists who use civilian cover to launch their attacks (as opposed to ONLY using such cover when NOT attacking).