For Humanity’s Sake, Keep Red Crosses on Medevac Helicopters
&gt; He felt that bringing a just war to a swift end justified almost any act.<p>Looking at recent history, I find myself agreeing more and more with him.<p>War is horrible. War always involves innocent people dying, even if it is just you 18 year old kids either forced or enticed to join the military. War creates casualties both physical and mental in the people that fight it. I would bet if you include mental health, the vast majority of people who were actually involved in combat, came away with some kind of  long term consequence.<p>Yet at the same time, war can be a necessity. Take of example WWII. There was no way Hitler could have been stopped without war. At the same time there was a lot of damage to German civilians.<p>The truth is that there is no way you can fight a clean war.<p>Having all these talks about “rules of war” just puts lipstick on a pig and makes a queasy public more willing to go along.<p>If it worth killing people for to achieve you objective, then go do it, and try to make it as short as possible. If it is not, then don’t start a war.<p>But making War into a type of game (these people are ok to kill, these people are not, and lawyering over how connected something is to war), I actually find kind of sick, as if it was just a big game.