[Emperor Palpatine]

Wrong.

Civilians support teh regime, civilians work in industries vital to the enemy economy, and bombing residential areas “de-houses” the workforce again affecting the economy.

Plus it saps morale, and even the widdle kiddies won’t grow up to be terrorists.

I admire Sherman and Churchill, and I’ll take their words over some namby-pamby moralist who even thinks killing the enemy is murder.

What a maroon!

[Mrs. Don-o]

Killing a deadly aggressor to stop his aggression is a just use of armed force. The directly targeted or indiscriminate killing of blameless people who are just going about their lives (the farmer, farming; the mother, mothering; and "widdle kiddies" in your contemptuous phrase) is murder.

The view that there are no innocent civilians has more in common with Jihadi Islam than with Western Civilization.

A lack of morally relevant discrimination between an aggressor and a non-aggressor is acceptable, even applauded --- in al-Zawahiri's madrassas. But it is condemned by the Judeo-Christian world, in an Aristotelian framework of reason and virtue, and in the principles of Natural Law which are the foundation of the American republic.

You can't prevail over Islamist fanaticism in this way. You've already accepted the single most loathsome thing in their philosophy. You may see yourself as the most staunch opponent of nation's enemies, but you deceive yourself? In your heart -- from which your morality proceeds --- you and the Enemy are in profound agreement.

God help you.