Reply #59: Dark. It is "NOT" justified. But why do you agonize over what ...

[Smarmie Doofus]

"they" are doing???? What "we" are doing is something that "we" ( I'm assuming you are a US citizen) have control over ( we elect the president and senate that calculatedly, premeditatedly started this war.) and, because we have control over it, are *RESPONSIBLE* for it. Including the dropping of 500 lbs on innocent people.

"We" do not, by contrast, have control over the truck bombings."We" did not approve the truck bombings. "We" do not aid and abet them, as we do the five hundred pound bombs on innocent people."We" are not "responsible for the truck bombings. ( And if I can anticipate your retort, the people that drop bombs from 20000 feet *know* that innocent people will invevitably be underneath them,).

When I hear versions of your argument, the subtext always seems to be " yeah, what the US does is bad, but look how bad the other side is." The unstated conclusion we are to draw from this is that the 500 lbs bombs ( and remember they PRECEDED the truck bombings) are not such a big deal and may even be........ necessary?

Do you really believe this?