[Rick29759]

Americans do not favor innocent civilians being killed. Unfortunately, when responding to an attack, an act of war, sometimes civilians pay the price, no matter how careful the military response. Are you really unable to differentiate between crashing hijacked commercial airliners into densely populated office buildings (attacks, by the way, in which more Britons were killed than in any other terrorist acts) and military action designed to destroy the organization that carried out such acts? When Britain defended herself against Nazi aggression in World War II, German civilians were killed by British bombs. Britains didn’t ‘favor’ killing these civilians; it was a necessary part of defending their country from barbarism. You have it backward. The United States did nothing to merit the viscious attacks of Sept. 11. Any unfortunate civilian deaths in Afghanistan resulting from the U.S. response should be blamed on the terrorists and the Taliban, not the United States. Not to respond aggressively would only encourage terrorist acts, not only in the United States but virtually anywhere in the world. Such a stance is morally indefensible. Here is an article from the Sunday Times (of London): http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiusausa01024.html

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Name : Rick29759, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, City : Springfield, State : OH, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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