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!
You think people get pissed off when you kill soldiers? They really get pissed off when you indiscriminately rain bombs down on women and children -- nuclear or otherwise -- without giving a damn who it is you're killing, or whether they are armed combatants or unarmed civilians. How would you like people murdering your five-year-old daughter -- for no greater reason than just because she lived in California, New York or Florida...
Why do you think we Americans are as angry as they are? Did we give a damn when bin Laden bombed the U.S. Cole? Was there public outrage for months when nightclubs attended by our servicemen were bombed? People expect that a few soldiers are going to be killed by an enemy and are therefore, in a sense, fair game.
But not women and children.
I repeat (and I will not do so again because this is getting tiresome) -- there are many times when you can't avoid civilian deaths, but the deliberate, cold-blooded murder of unarmed civilians is not only incredibly stupid militarily, it is downright evil. And if you can't see that, then you're too stupid -- or evil -- for hope.