Are my fellow Canadians targeting innocent civilians in Afghanistan? Are the Americans targeting innocent civilians, are you Brits? No, how foolish and shame on anyone who might suggest it.
Directly, maybe not - but knowing folk who work in Afghanistan for various aid agencies as I do, PW - they are making it clear that thousands are suffering from the effects of the fighting, and this is the responsibility of both Taliban and Allied actions.
However, that is rather a tangent from the topic of this thread - the ethicality/morality of the actions taken by the Americans in killing BL. As a Christian (and all here will tell you that I ain't a liberal Christian), I believe that the nature of the action was immoral and contrary to Christian principles. As I have said several times already, 2 wrongs (both BL's actions during his lifetime and the actions of the Americans both in supporting/arming him in the past and now in the nature of his death) do NOT make a right. As others have said, the actions of the Americans in assassinating him have simply placed themselves and, by association those who are seen as their supporters (Canada, Australia, the UK, Europe, ...), away from the moral highground that has long been claimed in these wars.
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