What is your opinion of war and civilian casualities?

Question

Please do not limit yourselves to our current situation, nor make general outlandish and vulgar attacks. I thank you for your mature and competent responses.

Please contain your opinions about Iraq until you have successfully answered your opinion *in general* about said topic. After that, feel free to vent at someone elses questions that is about Iraq. Thank you ever so much.

Answer 1

Every casualty in every war ever fought has been someones husband, wife, son, daughter, father, mother, etc. It is a sad fact that there will always be civilian deaths in war and those that are left behind to grieve have no consolation for their needless loss and find no solace in whether the war was just or unjust. They have only the cold soup of reality to dine on. Sadly, wars will always be with us. It is the nature of man. Some of those wars will be just while others will be unjust. Some will be fought for land, some for nation pride, some to weaken the resolve of another, and some for no discernible reason. But they will be fought. Many civilian and military leaders have said in one form or another about how it is a good thing that war is so terrible so that we will not grow too fond of it.

Answer 2

Well, as far as civilian casualties and war go, you can't have one without the other. Especially if you have to fight in urban areas. Nobody's weapons are so precise that they only kill the bad guys. It is inevitable that civilians will get caught in the crossfire. Bombs are indiscriminate. They just explode and kill everything around. Civilian or otherwise. We, at least, make an effort to minimize civilian casualties ( or collateral damage, as the military calls it) when we drop bombs. The Iraqi insurgents and al-Qaida terrorists specifically target civilians because they know it hits a nerve here at home. Why else would they bomb market places and a wedding? Surely they didn't think they'd get any US troops in those places. What makes Iraq even more terrible is the fact that the bad guys hide amongst the people. That makes "collateral damage" much more likely. I think war is hell. Partly because of all the innocents that die as a result of it. I also think if the politicians ( from both idiotic parties) would stay out of this one, we'd get done with it much sooner and much more efficiently.

Answer 3

It is a sad fact of life in war. It has always been. In WWII entire towns were flattened & everyone killed. Many towns had SS go in & murder all the men. Allies have always tried to curtail the murders & the USA has rules of engagement that limit the number of civilian deaths. No set of rules wull stop all cilivan deaths esp. when the opposing side is dressed like the civilians.
In Iraq the head terrorist have been caught in women's burmas trying to sneak out of country.
Sadly, we must accept some causalties as the cost of war.

Answer 4

war casualties are expected in every war, it is unavoidable. But in war, it is not govt. vs govt. it is nation vs nation, meaning everyone involved. But concerning Iraq, when the enemy dresses up like civilians and shoots people in the back, that is when civilian deaths rise. the enemy we are facing now are desperate, and have shown their cowardice by hiding behind civilians, in order to get open shots. and when this happens you can expect more casualties. we must not show that it is slowing us down, we must maintain an offensive and adapt.

Answer 5

Civilian casualties are what stops a war. Without those, the war drags on and on without end. It has been that way since war was invented.

Answer 6

Collateral damage is going to happen. Civilians died in WW2. It had to happen. Usually when you're in a war, it's not with ingrates who use civilians as a human shield, or that starve them in death camps, so civilian casualty rates aren't as high as at other times.

Answer 7

I think it is tragic that there have to be meaningless deaths among the civilians as well as the troops. See when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States had a right to fight back because Germany and Japan declared war on us. And I think the war in Iraq is meaningless because Iraq has done nothing to us nor did they attack us. Just because the customs in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other Middle Eastern countries are similar to each other, President Bush has made us to feel that all those people in those countries support terrorism and have terrorism, but terrorism is in every country in the world.

Answer 8

War is sometimes inevitable, and civilian casualties should be avoided as much as possible.

However, when civilians willingly harbor enemy soldiers or insurgents, I think they voluntarily make themselves part of the fighting.

Answer 9

I think wars fought without concern for civilian casualties, in this day and age, would be vastly quicker. I don't like war, but I understand its purpose.

Answer 10

if we were perfect we wouldnt have civilian casualities were only human. i think it suc,ks that we have any. As for the war sodom needed to be spanked, we whanted it now were starting to get cold feet cause we dont whont to stay there so long hey if we dont stablize the country now we mite have to go to war later on with them, smarter now then later.