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In reply to the discussion: Where's the Outrage? [View all]denbot
(9,902 posts)Again, war is not a series of trials to determine the gulit or innocence of the enemy as individuals, or a whole. War is a horrible endevor, waistful, cruel, tragic from begining to end.
We are not attempting to put members of al-Qaeda on trial. The people who fired upon Ibriham al-Banna's vehicle were under no illusions they were mailing a summons. The military personnel involved correctly determined that a high value, ememy target was in the vehicle, and they destroyed that vehicle killing that target.
I was a little glib in stating that the fact that they fired was proof of them being a military target, but that decision was the correct battlefield decision, and my statement was snarky, but also true.
In war you do not litigate, the enemy tends to kill your lawyers.
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