http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Feb12.html
Do you know during WW2 Japan used balloons to drop incendiary bombs on the United States? Fortunately none found their marks. Most ended up over Canada in the wilderness. They came across on the jet stream.I don't think will be that lucky with missiles though.
Actually I do not see where there is confirmation of civillians being killed. Either way war is dirty business. If N Korea decides to go to war with us and launch an attack on a convoy of our troops and ends up blowing up civillians then they will not have committed a crime. If they launch a nuke into california. That is the intentional killing of civillians and they must be prepared for the consequences.
Wars not fought with rag tag rebels with out uniforms are pretty bad. It is difficult if not impossible to determine the enemy sometimes. Our troops are well marked and there is clear deliniation between troops and civillians. Any attack on us had better hit the proper target.
Now as to the logic of saying one type of killing of civillians is ok and the other bad. Well I guess it would depend on military objective, intel available, risk and benefit all would need to be weighed. A homo bomber has no military objective, usually yields no benefit, ignores the intel, and intentionally targets civillians.
In both cases it is a bad thing that happens.
Finally the definition of civillian will be stretched to the limits of reality in the upcoming war with Iraq. Saddam will place people in harms way (intentionally) which IMO makes them military objectives as well. The deaths are not on our conscience but on that of the people who placed them in harms way.
Nothing but a bunch of sprout eating rabbits out there.
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