It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Killing is the payoff of war.
War is fear cloaked in courage.
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
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.
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.
I don't believe in murder.
Under well-settled legal principles, lethal force against a valid military objective, in an armed conflict, is consistent with the law of war and does not, by definition, constitute an 'assassination.'