The context of my response, er.... "bro," was to comment on the excuse that mass murder is to be expected when "it's a damn war."
You'll excuse me, "bro," if I hold to my previous comment that Americans must be held to a higher standard than those we're fighting.
Mass killing in war is the fact. That is what war consists of when it is performed on a military level. Killing.
We fully engaged in this war the instant the first plane hit the first building, it just took some to come that reality. Some still have not come to that reality.
SIr, this war was thrust upon us in our own homeland committed against our civilians as there designated target.
Where I come from, they way I have been taught, when a person or entitry tries to kill you it is prudent to avoid ther attacks and try to kill them back. What is a person to do? Just sit and wait until they fly more planes into buildings? Is that it? Wat is an optional response to their attack upon us if not to fight back?
That being understood, the need to fight back, we have war. This nation spent the 90's trying to avoid war. War came to us. Those that brought that war to my homeland have not stood down since their attack began. We remain at war. Killing happens in war. Isn't that the case that needs to be made to the religious oppressors to make them stand down? After all they are the enemy that brings this war to us.
If you hold that we must be held to a higher standard then you admit freel that you do not belive in the idea of Equality. Every one should be held to the highest standards. That is equality under just law. Are you really aiming to hold that line?