but were not talking about the entier population only the fanatical extremist crazy fundamentalist zealots within the population
you seem to have an interesting system of values wich contradicts all other value systems humans have ever had, the simple fact is that all culturs from the dawn of man, probly back a few evolutionary branches to when the word culture could only be applyed in the loosest of terms, with small famly clans hunting and gathering and killing any other human(/human like primate) who they didn't recognise becase they were trespassing on there teritory, and probly wouldn't survive long if they didn't.
other than your own name me one culture that would risk the lives of there people to save the lives of some people that are trying to kill them (ie are at war with)
so how many people total (both sides, combind and individualy) would likely have been killed if we would have gone in the hard way, remember these are the people who flew airplanes into ships as a common tactic, would carry a pistol with them to assure they wouldn't be captured, and the civilians who threw there childeren (this is not to denote they did not love there childeren, but to point out how much they hated/feared us) and them selves off of cliffs rather than be captured, do you realy think the totals would have been less that
half a million
also I don't think my contry has intentionaly killed civilians, who they knew for a fact were civilians, simply out of hate, if you know of such a situation in wich we have intentionaly killed civilians who we knew were defenantly civilians (ie not suspected militants) and of no threat what so ever to anyone (especaly if it didn't result in the people resonsible ending on some unpleasent fate) please tell me.
