Quote:Here's something to chew on. Every time you kill the kid of an innocent civilian who is in the kill zone of a strike intended to only take out terrorists, you create a new terrorist. I'm all for pre-emptively killing those who are plotting attacks against us or our allies. But you don't burn down your house to get rid of a few cockroaches. I'm hopeful these were precision strikes with no civilian casualties. But stop with the tough guy talk. It's ignorant.

The numbers of "innocent" civilians killed are pretty hard to pin down for one, the other people killed may often be co-conspirators. If you don't want to get blown up, don't go into a terrorists house. 

 

Let's say that by some miracle we are able to ONLY kill the terrorists with our bombings. Wouldn't that just "create another terrorist" too? It's not like they live in a bubble, they got kids and wives too. Look, you're partly right that we will never totally defeat an ideology but that doesn't mean that we need to roll over and get soft about fighting it. If 9/11 taught us anything it is that giving these people operational footholds to plan and orchestrate attacks from leads to more attacks on us. I'm not concerned with their motivations and feelings, if they want to kill Americans, that's all we need to know.

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