Whether you like it or not it is war.
Define the war? Are we at war with Afghanistan? Or is it like the war on proverty and drugs? WOn can be won easily, and has a fininte term, and can be treated liek a war. The other is more rhetoric than reality. Wars on things like the second choice will have casulites, but will be never ending and likely hurt us more than help.
See my first response. It still applies.
A weakenss on your part. Very weak.
No one has excused illegal behavior. The difference between us is that I recognized that murder is not US policy. If it were US policy no one would be disciplined or prosecuted.
But there was in two ways:
1) those who created the atmosphere that allowed the deaths walked away untouched. It was excused and the lower soldiers were scapegoated. See Monsters and heros on TED talks.
2) Other illegalites, like waterboarding, were excused, torturing language and definition to the extreme. the faith are willing to swallow the excuses, sadly. But history and definintion are clear on this. We broke the law.
Two people. Was that it? Two people? High schools have more violence.
That makes it all ok than. Hell, we could torture and kill you tommorrow, and there would be no need to charge anyone or change any policy because we would not have reached the magic number that makes it wrong yet.
But we can only speak to what we know. We know two were killed and believed innocent by us, the US, the military, and those who tortured them.
We know that an innocent Canadian was taken off the streets, not in Afghanistan or Iraq, but here. And he was sent away to be tortured.
We know we've waterboarded people.
Now waht's the odds we don't know everything thatw as done.