Russia air strikes 'killed 200 Syrian civilians'

Why are people not outraged? When 200 people are killed by terrorists the whole world mourns, but when 200 people are killed by a government?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35162523

Because the 200 people killed by terrorists were not inside a warzone.

And? Innocent people are innocent people. If the terrorists are terrible people for killing 200 people, what are Russian government for killing 200 people? They are guilty of the exact same crime.

What makes their crime different in terms of blame is that innocent people in Paris were the targets, whereas the ones killed by bombing Syria were not the intended target, they were however within close proximity to the target.

And if the Russian air forces had the ability to launch an air strike on the target, they had the ability to see that there would be casualties. If you accept civillians as casualties they might as-well be the target. Anyone who kills has blood on their hands, it doesn't matter how indirect the desire to kill is, if you accept as a consequence of your actions, you are guilty, and the Russian Government are collectively guilty and responsible for the deaths of 200 Syrian citizens.

Combatants who abide with the rules of war attempt to minimise casualties. Unfortunately, ISIS want to play dirty and fight amongst civilians. So any strike on important ISIS targets will harm civilians. Ergo, any harm to civilians is the blame of ISIS in this case.

Some would argue that every country is responsible for its own national security. You can bet that in the case of an UK invasion, 200 civilians is NOT going to deter a strike and neither should we expect it to. If a country falls short of its duty to national security then others have to step in and do the job for them...which often is going to involve some unfortunate casualties.

Jesus, you'd swear some people haven't seen 24.

I can't justify killing 200 people, in the pretence that it kills an ideology. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed in Iraq as a result of the war we declared there also, and for what.. I don't believe in the end goal, I don't believe killing innocent people with end the ideology of ISIS, I don't believe in killing innocent people full stop, and I don't believe that when our country is finished in Syria the world will be in a better position.

The last 20 years has proved, that the more we invade and kill civilians, the worse it gets.

What makes their crime different in terms of blame is that innocent people in Paris were the targets, whereas the ones killed by bombing Syria were not the intended target, they were however within close proximity to the target.

What a retard^

Bravo, you weave a compelling tapestry of an argument there.

The governments are terrorists no difference to me

Sorry to argue with me you need to have a minimal level of intelligence, the bar is really low but sorry you don't qualify

Sorry to argue with me you need to have a minimal level of intelligence, the bar is really low but sorry you don't qualify