Collateral Damage (cont’d.):

Robert Fisk comments that Slaughter of the innocent bolsters view that this is war against Islam.

It’s always the same story. We start shooting with “smart” weapons after our journalists and generals have told us of their sophistication. Their press conferences produce monochrome snapshots of bloodless airbase runways with little holes sprinkled across the apron. “A successful night,” they used to say, after bombing Serbia.

They said that again last week and no one ? until of course we splatter civilians ? suggests going to war involves killing innocent people. It does. That is why the military invented that repulsive and morally shameful phrase “collateral damage”. And they are always ready to smear the reporters on the ground. Independent UK

And not only a war against Islam, but Andrew Rawnsley says it is a war they’re winning. Guardian UK