It seems to me that it's murder when someone is pressing a button that sends a cruise missle winging its way into some country and kills someone, a soldier kills another soldier in combat, or even if soldiers execute their prisoners. It's all murder and if you win the war you get to decide who murdered who more responsibly. Killing soldiers and civilians without staring them in the face strikes me as particularly cold-blooded murder but probably for those murderers it's all more like a video game. And when murders make "mistakes" they (or their commanders) should always say "sorry" before going back to the war.

The rest of us watching should strive for a higher level of empathy for all the victims and their families. What a fucking waste...

Charley Noble