Reply to post: Re: Because they don't care anymore. All just ragheads, innit?

Re: Because they don't care anymore. All just ragheads, innit?

I think the statement that it is "all just ragheads" simplifies it to much. all combat/drone pilots are trained to minimalize collateral damage. however sometimes a targets value out weighs the civilian casualties. everyone always puts the blame on the pilot. pilots don't get to choose their own targets. they have to follow their orders. basically fly here, bomb that or them.

An ethical man knows that it is wrong that he is cheating on his wife, but a moral man does cheat on his wife in the first place. the pilot does not get to choose his orders. the pilot knows it is morally wrong to bomb a wedding with targets mixed with civilians, but must follow the orders of those above him. Ethically you have to look at amount of civilian casualties. Killing 50 civilians to get 1 guy with an AK-47 is wrong. killing 5 civilians to get 1 guy like Osama Bin Laden who is known to be plotting further attacks would be regrettable but could be justified, depending on the circumstances. The bombing of a wedding for a Taliban commander is also a grey area, in one case 90 people were killed. 32 of them civilians. basic math is 90 dead - 32 civilians = 58 terrorists killed. 2:1 collateral damage is not justifiable in my book. However we don't have all the classified data on the target and what he was planning. maybe it was justifiable, unfortunately we will never know as we don't have that data. Unfortunately, you will always have civilian casualties when fighting this kind of a war so long as the enemy continues to mix with the civilian population. this has been going on for as long as there has been war. the Taliban/AQ/ISIS know that the US will be more reluctant bomb them if they are mixed with civilians, and so they use them a human shields. That is the true moral outrage, and shows AQ/ISIS/Terrorists disregard for human life by putting them in danger. You will never see an American or British soldiers using civilians as human shields. AQ/ISIS/Taliban don't care about civilians getting killed, and regrettably sometimes the only way to eliminate their top commanders is sometimes with risk heavy collateral damage, and while regrettable may be justifiable in bigger picture. another good example is WW2 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is regrettable that the US dropped nukes on them, but in the big picture, it ended the war faster and reduced the amount of casualties that would have occurred had the allies tried to attack the mainland. it was morally wrong, and the suffering of the people unimaginable but it ethically it was justifiable.