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The man who worked in the machine shop that produced telephones for the German government was a target. The woman who helped harvest rice that fed the man who drove the bus that took the troop moving trolley car operator in Tokyo to work was a target. If you lived in Fascist Italy, you were a target.

If that's the case, does that apply to us too? According to you, are our civilians supposed to be legitimate targets? If not, what is the logical difference between our civilians and theirs?

Our citizens did not support the taliban, our citizens are not in a country that started this. They set the rules by bombing us with planes and killing our civilians. Now they can live with the rules. The country that is the aggressor, that starts the war, can expect for their citizens to feel it. That is why countries better be careful of who they keep in their borders.

We do not decide what constitutes a "legitimate" target in the United States. The enemy does that, currently with some limited impunity!

The point is simple. War is hell.

Take your worst assumptions about war and multiply them 100 times. You have still not approximated the horrors of modern mano-e-mano combat.

That said, the cruel hoax is that everything you do to "humanize" war or make it less horrible only serves to prolong the conflict. That prolonged conflict only results in more deaths on all sides.

In 3 wars, we have tried to pare down the conflict so the other side will "understand" our position.

We have found that the only enemy soldier who learns the wisdom and and longevity of our position is a dead ememy soldier!!!

Tough, but true. It's called reality!