An article that fairly well summarizes my POVThis is an article I came across while surfing \'related\' literature on the net. Please give it a read.
At the end of the day, nobody realistically expects insurgents to suit up in BDUs, that would be akin to suicide, as they are fighting an overwhelmingly superior force. I generally don\'t have a problem even with suicide bombers - I would consider it a legitimate offensive weapon for the militarily outclassed, but they use it as such a weapon rarely (ie, targeting enemy army baracks, docked ships, etc). Generally, they use it for terrorism where they specifically target civilians, and use civilians as shields. Theirin lies the difference, while both sides ARE responsible for the deaths of innocent civilians, one side overwhelmingly (and overall) is trying to avoid civilian casualties, while the other is using their deaths as a tool. That\'s what keeps the military in the moral right on the issue - period.
I didn\'t like the reasons that the US went into Iraq, I still don\'t buy their excuses, but that said, it was IMO the right thing to do (and should be done by them and the rest of the world in a few other nasty places), and now that they\'re there, they have a job to do. Leave prematurely and they condemn far more civilians to a fate far worse than a bullet (Read oppression, rape, torture, followed by a bullet anyways).
