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Im sorry, I dont subscribe to the idea that conventional warfare is the same as terrorist warfare---morally or subjectively. The difference between bombing a bus from the air and blowing it up with a suicide bomber is the airman isnt trying to bomb the bus because its a civilian transport and considered offlimits; the terrorist actively seeks to kill as many innocents as possible to make his point as horrific as possible.
Your 500k to 1mill claim is badly staged propaganda because you cannot substantiate or corroborate that number; no one can in an active warfront.
Bottom line, terrorism is an accepted course of political action in Islamic culture and condemnation is weak and has no teeth.
When you decide to drop a certain number of bombs you know that you will probably destroy more school buses of children than any terrorist could. That is when conventional warfare becomes the same as terrorism in effect, if not motivation. The motivation of killer is not very significant to his victim. In the case of every war since WWII, the West has had no argument that our bombings would save lives overall*, because we never faced a genuine sufficiently significant threat to our nation's safety.
*possible exception of Bosnia
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