Oh,yeah that one. Actually I borrowed that one from one Groucho Marx. I said that because you seem to have this rather simplistic view that war shouldn’t involve the deliberate killing of civilians. In the wars America has fought in the 21st. century, Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom this was not the intention. The American military is the most professionally trained and most powerfully military force in the history of armed conflict and despite what our enemies say our military doesn’t deliberately target innocent civilians. But this is a different kind of war we find ourselves in now. The jihadi who drives a taxi by day plants IEDs by night. Kids kicking a soccer ball around tell the local Taliban leader where the Americans are. When shit goes down it’s sometime unavoidable that they’ll be killed. It’s happened before in the last century. Buddy of mine walking point in Vietnam pushed through some tall grass and came face to face with a kid he figured to be no more than fifteen or sixteen leveling an AK-47 at him. What do you think he did? In Somalia kids that age and younger grabbed weapons and joined the mobs attacking the Army Rangers in Mogadishu. Like I said war sucks. People die. When you find a cleaner, more sanitized way to fight one tell the generals. ‘’SicSemperTyrannis’’. maybe it’s me but man, there’s some irony in that choice of a screen name.
Well, if they are attacking you then that is obviously different. Of course you shoot someone shooting at you. But not all civilians do that kind of thing, in fact, most in the civil war for sure did not (remember this was the war we were originally talking about), and yet you want to use this as an excuse somehow for Northern troops treatment of civilians in the South?