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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I think it's important to remember, in our outrage at a few hundred deaths in Europe that 'we' have blown up droned or generally caused half a million deaths in the Middle East in the last decade.
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That 'caused' in your assertion carries some enormous assumptions - that there would have been no civil wars in Iraq or Syria without Western meddling, and that civilian casualties in war are morally equivalent to deliberately targeting of civilians.
There really is a difference between attacking military targets, trying to minimize civilians casualties, but causing civilian casualties anyway, and deliberating making every effort to maximize the number of civilians killed. If the West had the same goal as the jihadists - to maximize the number of civilians killed in a war between the West and Islam - the death toll in the Middle East would be in the millions.
At some point, we could see jihadists get their hands on biological weapons and kill millions. Would that stop the "but
they do it
too" false equivalence?