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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.
Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.
No, the United States does not target civilians.
War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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.
You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
In order to prosecute war, you have to take some risk.
The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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.