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Four UN workers were killed when the building they were in was hit, prompting an appeal from their boss in Pakistan that "People need to distinguish between combatants and those innocent civilians who do not bear arms." That's all well and good, but a bomber is not a pair of tweasers. Satellite cameras are not microscopes. Combatants don't have red targets painted on them to make them easier to pick out. The Taliban have not painted all official targets dayglo orange in order to make them easier to find and attack. Our intelligence people seem to have done an excellent job so far, in fact, in identifying targets and our front line people have been doing an equally good job in hitting them. But there will always be targets which are identified incorrectly and there will always be misses. It's the nature of the beast. It's to be regretted, but it can't entirely be avoided. The only way to prevent it completely is not to fight and thus to give our enemies free hand to keep attacking us. That's not acceptable. (discuss) Update: The four UN employees who were killed were near a radio tower which was a legitimate target. |
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