No attempt at humor today

While I have certain reservations anytime the military personnel of any country, including but not limited to ours, anytime those personnel are outside the borders I find it aggressive and of dubious justification.
Still, there are ways to deal with wrongs suffered. Those ways might include diplomacy, appeal to world courts...okay, I was wrong, that line was funny..., even appeal to arms. As long as it is other fighters you are dealing with.
In a theoretically enlightened age such as ours I fail to understand the idea that killing innocent, often sympathetic people your cause will be advanced. The indiscriminate submarine sinkings and later early attempts at bombing by the "civilized" European countries reintroduced this concept to warfare, although it was never really gone as evidenced by "Nits make Lice" type comments by our "esteemed" military leaders during the so-called "Indian Wars". I do not ignore the Armenian murders, they simply fall in a different realm...that would be murder under cover of war, not indiscriminate killing during war.
World War II was much worse. As bad as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, some of the bombings of German cities, partially in retaliation and partially in an attempt to destroy German civilian morale, saw firestorms that rivaled the destruction of the nuclear bombs. When flames shoot as high as they did over Dresden with temperatures upwards of 1500 degrees centigrade, the heat so intense people are being sucked into the fire...hmm... it is estimated that over 400,000 German CIVILIANS were casualties of indiscriminate bombing by the Allied forces during the war. You remember them, the Allies, the GOOD guys.
Which proves yet again there are no good guys in war. Any war.
But it does not justify the bombing of hotels in Jordan. It does not justify the strafing of wedding parties in Afghanistan. Nor any other atrocity against innocent people.
This world is a confused place. And when violence begets violence begets violence, the innocent will continue to suffer to no effect. The War in Iraq is no closer to over because some hotel travers died, nor is it closer to a finish because some wedding party got shot up.
Here is a hint for those in charge. When shots are fired, people get hurt. And not always people who signed on to fight. So stop shooting.