So effing what? If we are to be any better than our enemies, that's the price we pay. If we adopt the tactics of terrorists and target civilians, then we become terrorists ourselves.
It would be bitterly ironic if, in order to wage a Global War on Terror, we adopted terroristic methods.
You will notice, by the way, that the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions do not allow signatories to suspend them just because our enemy combatants don't abide by the restrictions. Targeting civilians is a huge no-no under the Convention.
Give the Marines a full, fair investigation. If they acted reasonably, fine. It's for their safety that they're out of country. If, however, they targeted civilians, hang 'em out to dry.
Go ride in a convoy, Ironside, and then we'll talk.
Explain to me how this is "adopting a terroristic attitude?
From CNN:
...."In the March 4 incident in Nangahar province, an explosives-rigged minivan crashed into a convoy of Marines that U.S. officials said also came under fire from gunmen.
As many as 10 Afghans were killed and 34 wounded as the convoy made an escape. Injured Afghans said the Americans fired on civilian cars and pedestrians as they sped away.
U.S. military officials said militant gunmen shot at Marines and may have caused some of the civilian casualties."....
How many "civilians" were killed by the suicide bomb, how many were killed by the terrorists firing at the convoy....and just for good measure, should the Marine convoy just have stayed and absorbed that fire? Sounds like an armed conflict between terrorists and our troops, with once again, terrorists putting civilians at risk trying to cause another massacre.
If I read the story right, those Marines walked right into that one and was exactly why the terrorist picked that time and place to carry out their attack.
The whole idea was to set up some civilians to get caught in the cross fire which generates protests afterwards.
My response is also, "So effing what?". It's not like those so called civilians didn't know those terrorists was among them.
Under fire under those same conditions, I can't say I would react much different.
Odd though.... No one demonstrates against those terrorists that used them as cover to carry out their missions.