”The tiresome and widespread use of "innocent" is no more than a tendentious appeal to emotions. The facts of this conflict are terrible enough without our having to resort to that. If you mentally remove the word from the phrase every time you see it, you'll see that the statement in question is just as powerful, if not more so”

And there you go again. The only person who seems to find it tiresome is you. If you were ever a Boy Scout I’ll bet you were the kid who couldn’t March in step.