RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events "It's not about oil or Iraq..."

OK, thanks for the correction. 60 tonnes of explosives is a lot more than I had understood it to be.

But your citation otherwise backs my point: Tripoli is still standing. Your citation refers to 5 targets. That's precision deployment against military targets, not indiscrimate slaughter of civilians. Its not like the burning of Tokyo in WW2.

And that's how it should be. The military has no right to target civilians in a conflict anymore (On a total tangent, that's always been my personal problem with Palestine - blowing up buses full of innocent people is morally bankrupt, regardless of how legitimate the cause, and you can't support those who authorise it).

There is some irony to this conversation, since Tripoli sits on the site of ancient Carthage, which was utterly destroyed by the Romans.