Then it appears that, in this one point, you are correct.
They [all Afghan citizens] are just as guilty of the crime if they had piloted the aircraft themselves.
If this is true, then by your own incredibly stupid logic, YOU are just as guilty as any American politician who bin Laden has a grievance against, and you and I (and all American citizens, such as those in the World Trade Center) are legitimate targets for destruction. In which case, why would you oppose al Qaeda?
I could care less who calls themselves innocent, as their children continue the butchering of other "innocents".
Wait a minute -- was that you who said that, or was it bin Laden? It's starting to all sound like the same source.
Would you care so much about a crackhead [who just robbed your house and killed your family] if the cops were beating him like Rodney King?
Such a person, obviously, would be guilty. You seem to have a problem distinguishing the concept of guilt and innocence.
Let me try and spell it out for you. People who do bad and evil things, such as murder people, are guilty, and deserve punishment. People who don't do bad things are innocent. (Can you say "innocent"?)
Decent people don't purposefully murder the innocent.
How would you deal with the enemy, slap them on the hand and tell them not to do that anymore?
Destroy the enemy, of course.
Innocent, unarmed civilians in another country who have no intention of harming us and no means to do so, who are solely concerned with how they can find enough rice to feed their families today, are not the enemy.
Unless, of course, you're Osama bin Laden.
Or a Japanese farmer living outside Hiroshima. War is hell, ain't it?
You cannot take the time to determine who is guilty and who is innocent when they are all in one country. In the middle east, there are many different tribes that contribute to the populus of each country. Therefore, you kill off one, then you have pissed off his cousin in two countries over, and he now has a vendetta against you.
People got bogged down in this "innocent" BS back in Vietnam....what would the American losses been otherwise? There is no innocents except those who have picked up arms against their oppressor (in this case the Taliwackers), such as the Northern Alliance (and I do not recall singling them out, as more Taliban have joined up with them).
If we are to win a war against terrorists, we cannot be disarmed by thinking there are innocents among the people we are about to bomb. Any news station (we know who you are) who would decry innocents were killed would rather arm the enemy so they can kill more of us. The people on the aircraft had no choice. The first two planes kept in their seats afraid a few "innocents" might get hurt. By the time the plane crashed into the pentagon, the passengers of the 4th plane KNEW they were to be killed, and kept more INNOCENTS on the ground from being killed. Just need to look more carefully at who you call INNOCENT!