http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/death-dealt-in-moral-blur/2006/06/06/1149359742448.html"THE defining distinction between what we do, and what terrorists do, has always been one of intention. They target civilians. We kill civilians — many thousands more, as it happens — by accident. They kill people. We cause collateral damage. That, ostensibly, makes us better."
"At a theoretical level, it's a distinction with substance. But in practice it's increasingly short on meaning. What is the moral difference between deliberately killing someone, and acting in the full knowledge that death will be an inevitable byproduct? How real is this distinction when we know for certain that our actions will kill thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of innocent people?"