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We went after the terrorists who perpetrated 911 because they killed innocent civilians.

We have killed many innocent civilians in the process. That is indefensible, no matter our goals.

You think war is clean and sanitary?

I think that America's anti-terrorism efforts are insufficiently discriminatory (in the sense that they're indiscriminate, not that they're racially discriminatory (which they also are, but for obvious and probably defensible reasons)) when selecting targets. We're probably doing more harm than good by driving innocents caught in the crossfire into the arms of the very anti-American organizations we meant to target.

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