It turns out that this line about being uniquely careful about civilian casualties -- I always thought it was a nonsense obedience test, like calling the moon the sun in "Taming of the Shrew" -- I want to say Haviv Rettig Gur in a Hugh Hewitt interview specifically clarified that they're comparing themselves to zogbots in the neocon fore…
It turns out that this line about being uniquely careful about civilian casualties -- I always thought it was a nonsense obedience test, like calling the moon the sun in "Taming of the Shrew" -- I want to say Haviv Rettig Gur in a Hugh Hewitt interview specifically clarified that they're comparing themselves to zogbots in the neocon forever wars that ended in surrender. So they're saying that Americans are war criminals, as a way of arguing that, by comparison with brutal Americans, they're nowhere near as bad, and the audience for that argument is the Americans whom they're calling war criminals.
It turns out that this line about being uniquely careful about civilian casualties -- I always thought it was a nonsense obedience test, like calling the moon the sun in "Taming of the Shrew" -- I want to say Haviv Rettig Gur in a Hugh Hewitt interview specifically clarified that they're comparing themselves to zogbots in the neocon forever wars that ended in surrender. So they're saying that Americans are war criminals, as a way of arguing that, by comparison with brutal Americans, they're nowhere near as bad, and the audience for that argument is the Americans whom they're calling war criminals.