This is a game that I do not play. After being here for a while I have run out of any patience running and getting sources for 1) things that pretty obviously we both know, 2) are easy enough to get online using simple searches, and/or 3) for people that are likely to disappear or dismiss the evidence provided.
Yes, there are instances of soldiers shooting civilians when they were not supposed to.
Those individuals will face the music for their actions. I guess to me your comments make it sound like innocents are being killed by the US and we are not being held accountable. If your point is simply that we have killed innocent civillians, then you are correct.
The context of your examples was to create an excuse for what happens.
The context was to cite examples where we kill women and children, not to make any excuse for it.
You addressed this with examples of how heartbroken a specific soldier was when killing someone they did not want to, and a person taking out someone as they should though having doubts and it turned out for the best.
I simply stated what happened. Read into it what you wish.
I will ask again, did you read the sniper account (the one by the snipers) and was it not terribly upsetting from the view point of a moral soldier?
Sniping people? That's not upseting.
Wounding them and letting them wriggle about for a bit?
I would have to know more details to make a judgement but my initial impression is that when they take their initial shot, they are aiming to kill and not wound. This is for their safety, as they don't want to sit in the same spot and fire repeatedly.
That being said, it takes a second to reload and it takes time to reaquire the target and set up another shot. It's not like in video games where you simply place the crosshairs over something and mash a button.
If they take an extra second or two to let the guy scream a bit, that doesn't upset me. If they sit there for 5 mins and keep intentionally wounding the target (Full Metal Jacket), then yes, that is wrong.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" Isaiah 6:8
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