Reply #81: Not really, no.

[Kelly Rupert]

A mother who dies in a marketplace bombing is equally dead whether she was killed in an act of "justified resistance" or in an act of "unjustified" violence. A father who is shot dead when trying to repair electricity lines for $10/day is equally dead whether he was killed for "helping the illegitimate occupier" or if he's killed by a Blackwater merc firing into a crowd.

"He started it" really ought to stop being a legitimate excuse for wanton violence by the second grade.