Their contempt for human life and disregard for the principle of non-combatant immunity stem not from despair and anger, but from nihilism. |
It was useless for his attendant friends to assert that he had been a non-combatant. |
The purpose of military action must be to relieve or avert gross physical harm to non-combatant civilians. |
But Broyles is too good here, and admits that women too feel the pull of war by being exposed to it, even as a non-combatant. |
At the war's end, non-combatant fatalities would increase to more than a thousand. |
Airwars has found at least 459 non-combatant deaths, including 100 children, from 52 airstrikes. |