It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No, the United States does not target civilians.
It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.
If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.
It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.
We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.
In my view, targeted lethal force is at its least controversial when it is on its strongest, most traditional legal foundation. The essential mission of the U.S. military is to capture or kill an enemy. Armies have been doing this for thousands of years. As part of a congressionally authorized armed conflict, the foundation is even stronger.
You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
Israel never targets civilians deliberately, period.
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