Bomb attacks
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frozendrifter7 said:First off, we’re talking about semantics here. A "bomb attack" is fundamentally different from an "airstrike." You have Google at your fingertips—just type in "bomb attack" and see how many results link it directly to airstrikes? Absolutely none.
Second—and this is the crux of it—it’s about intent. A pilot or a munitions expert is targeting enemy combatants or terrorists; they aren't out there looking to slaughter pregnant women, children, or the elderly—the civilians. Suicide bombers and terrorists, however, go out of their way to kill civilians. They couldn't care less if they blow up a commuter bus full of people heading to work, or trap a crowd in a theater with explosives, or—heaven forbid—capture a soldier just to decapitate him and mail his head back to his mother.
You're comparing apples to oranges.
Oh, so now we're playing semantics? Anyone with half a brain knows a bomb attack covers any strike involving some kind of explosive...
frozendrifter7 said:First off, we’re talking about semantics here. A "bomb attack" is fundamentally different from an "airstrike." You have Google at your fingertips—just type in "bomb attack" and see how many results link it directly to airstrikes? Absolutely none.
Second—and this is the crux of it—it’s about intent. A pilot or a munitions expert is targeting enemy combatants or terrorists; they aren't out there looking to slaughter pregnant women, children, or the elderly—the civilians. Suicide bombers and terrorists, however, go out of their way to kill civilians. They couldn't care less if they blow up a commuter bus full of people heading to work, or trap a crowd in a theater with explosives, or—heaven forbid—capture a soldier just to decapitate him and mail his head back to his mother.
You're comparing apples to oranges.
A pilot targets enemy soldiers? Is that what British pilots were doing when they bombed Dresden? Targeting soldiers? Because their "targeting" sure looked bad when they left tens of thousands of civilians dead in the crossfire...🤣
BTW, what dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombs too. Were pilots just aiming at military targets there?