Carol, did you bother to read where I said that "there is also no doubt that soldiers, and contractors, have committed illegal assaults on innocent people"?
So then you are admitting that when I said this from you was debatable, I was entirely correct...
One great difference is that American (and British and French and German and Iraqi and Afghan) soldiers do not deliberately target civilians. Jihadis do.
You're trying to have it both ways. You're admitting that what I said was right, but you're also trying to make it look like I was wrong. And you're blaming me for the discussion having degenerated?