Yes to some extent that is true. Our responsibility is to our civilians and our troops who, if we are morally justified to be fighting a war, are innocent as well. We should never kill any civilians if we don’t have to but neither should we shy away from killing them while going after the enemy. So I agree with sir Winston Churchill. But the little children and those who are trapped in a totalitarian country are innocent and if they die the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of the initiators of the violence.
Innocents always die in war and I would rather all the innocents in Iran die than one Israeli die because Iran is the clear aggressor.
Unfortunately our war policies have been decided by a bunch of stinking filthy altruists who are willing to sacrifice our soldiers to save innocent Iraqis and Afghans and refuse to do what it takes to win wars and get out.
Sherman was right.
“War is many things, but war is mostly hell. The more brutal it is, the quicker it will be over. War was the remedy our enemies chose......and I prepare to give them all the war they want.”
-William Tecumseh Sherman