I do accept the fact that modern warfare is against the economy as well as the military of opposing forces. I do acknowledge that infrastructure is also targetted. the point I am trying to make is that the US military targetting process DOES NOT involve deliberately finding the largest concentration of civilians it can find and dropping bombs or artillery on their heads. If that were true fallujah would be a smoking hole in the ground.
Again...please stop rewriting what I wrote to make you point as in
the US military targetting process DOES NOT involve deliberately finding the largest concentration of civilians ..
By responding to what I have NOT said, you are implying that I have written the above.
I wrote, and meant ONLY what I wrote.
Not your rewrite of it; not what you imagine my take is on the issue at hand; not your interpretation of what I must have meant, but what I wrote and nothing else, okay?
This moving the goal posts thing (that to some extent we all do, and usually by honest mistake) only serves to put us at odds, when in fact there is little that you and actually do disagree on regards this subject.
Do bear in mind my original response, the one you responded to, was in response to something somebody else wrote, and my response was to a very specific point they'd made.
Inventing stuff that you imagine I must therefore mean, (like for example targeting "the largest concentration of civilians" serves no purpose other than to make me think you want to debate an issue with a strawman and not with me.
Okay?
Is that clear?
If you take exception with something I said, QUOTE ME, and don't characterize what you think I must have meant, and then chasten me for your hazy rendidtion of what you think I must have meant.
In other words, please stop leaping to conclusions about who I am and what I think.
I, not you, am the world's leading expert in what I think, no less than YOU and you alone can tell me what YOU think.
Fair?
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