is this what it was like in 9/11. trying to reason with people whose entire concept of human decency flies out the window when presented with the possibility of causing the smallest amount of harm to a “terrorist”, no collateral damage is too large, no civilian too innocent, no connection too murky for people to deserve to die or be permanently crippled. people citing world war two urban warfare statistics to try to make a bad situation seem less worse and not balking at how fascist they sound
Americans are obsessed with punishment to an insane degree. people DESERVE to die if they support on hezbollah or hamas, regardless of whether their actions bring harm to anyone. if you’re a nurse or a courier or a fucking security guard in a place where the only political entity in the region has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States your life is forfeited. if your child or wife or siblings happened to be mutilated it’s your fault for existing. collective punishment and collective responsibility only exists for third world nations.
if you plant bombs in equipment you know with a high degree of certainty will enter civilian hands and be used around civilians, and you kill them or seriously maim them, this isn’t terrorism, only Arabs commit terrorism
Yes, this is what it was like in 9/11. If you said innocent civilians were dying, you got answers like “well THEY should have thought of that before attacking us” as if they’re one nebulous entity. This same thing has now been said to me verbatim about Palestinians the last couple of years.
Meanwhile people look at me like I’m crazy when I say we should at least make sure to minimize casualties, let alone what I actually believe which is that civilian casualties and injuries should be as close to zero as possible