Five dead, including gunman, in Tennessee military facilities shootings

[August]

Originally Posted by Platapus

We use drones. No one said we had to use the exact same techniques as the Islamic apostates.

Being beheaded or having a building collapse on you. In the long term, it really does not make much difference to the victim.

There's a big moral difference between a drone missile that accidentally kills civilians being used as a human shields and an enemy that deliberately and continually seeks out civilians to kill by the most heinous methods possible. Which do you prefer? Being killed by a falling building or being shot then having your entire family and community rousted out into the desert and shot, maybe raped and tortured first with younger ones being shipped off to slavery?

It'd be nice if wars could be fought in places devoid of civilians but that is not how it ever turns out. The best any war time protagonist can do is try and minimize civilian casualties which we do as much or more than any other army in history.

Sorry for the speech but I resent implications that we're no different than our enemies. The differences are vast and run very deep.