A few thoughts…
first off, bombing civilians is a shitty thing to do. Absolutely.

That said, I don’t necessarily get how we expect an enemy to fight us in a manner where we’d easily win. In the American Revolution, the brits thought we were assholes because we’d sometimes use guerilla war tactics instead of simply lining up in a field shooting at each other. (yes, this is an oversimplification) That’s war… its shitty. Do we really expect Al-qaeda to mobilize their 47th airborne regiment and attack the coast of Virginia to prepare for their land troops to march upon DC? No. Don’t get me wrong… they suck- but they’re trying to win the only way they possibly can.

Also, I remember our “shock and awe”.. when the TVs were full of images of us blowing the shit out of Baghdad in order to put TERROR in the hearts of our enemy. It was cast as a great thing, us blowing up all those buildings. Later, after we took baghdad, the enemy blew up one building in the same area; the rest of the day the news networks shown the tragedy of people trying to sift through the rubble.

I’m not trying to side with the enemy – al-qaeda and the taliban need to go bye-bye. But lets not fall into the trap of pretending their methods of taking life in war are uncalled for and that they should ‘fight fair’.