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To keep things short: we have a fundamental disagreement there, really. I\'ve seen the video and I believe that this is a clear and obvious violation of good military conduct: never attack \'\'in a civilian area\'\' until you\'re \'\'certain\'\' that you\'ve identified a/the enemy. I don\'t accept that, after 4 years of operation in Iraq, the US army would be incapable of operating in a manner that doesn\'t entail the senseless killing of innocents, furthermore, since the start of the Iraq war, according to TheOtherWiki, just 45 aircraft (i.e., helis and planes) have been lost to enemy fire despite \'an average of 17 attacks a month in 2006-2007\', which shows that there\'s good reason to believe that the pilots are utterly overreacting in their perception of the dangers of an attack.
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To keep things short: we have a fundamental disagreement there, really. I\\\'ve seen the video and I believe that this is a clear and obvious violation of good military conduct: never attack \\\'\\\'in a civilian area\\\'\\\' until you\\\'re \\\'\\\'certain\\\'\\\' that you\\\'ve identified a/the enemy. I don\\\'t accept that, after 4 years of operation in Iraq, the US army would be incapable of operating in such a place without proper protocol to guarantee that they\\\'re attacking insurgents, not civilians (independently of whether or not they\\\'re carrying AKs, which some people seem to think is a \\\'get killed free\\\' card, but not, thankfully, you).
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Anyway, it\'s all besides the point. Since both you and WildKnight still seem dissatisfied, I\'ll won\'t persist, RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment and all, although I still feel that the parallels are there and this is a valid trope.
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Furthermore, since the start of the Iraq war, according to TheOtherWiki, just 45 aircraft (i.e., both helis and planes) have been lost to enemy fire despite \\\'an average of 17 attacks a month in 2006-2007\\\', which shows that there\\\'s good reason to believe that the pilots are utterly overreacting in their perception of the dangers of an attack and could have afforded the time to make sure they\\\'re doing it right.
Anyway, it\\\'s all besides the point. Since both you and WildKnight still seem dissatisfied, I won\\\'t persist, RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment and all, although I still feel that the parallels <are there> and this is a valid trope.
Anyway, it\\\'s all besides the point. Since both you and WildKnight still seem dissatisfied, I won\\\'t persist, RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment and all, although I still feel that the parallels <are there> and this is a valid trope.
