> If your country isn't respecting the other civilians, then why would you expect another country to respect your civilians?

At a time when we have seen the Israel-Palestine conflict ratchet up to the worst levels of violence in decades, maybe we should be hesitant to accept this position. This kind of thinking on both sides there is part of how and why they are where they are.

You might interpret my previous comment as saying "it's okay to kill civilians", which wasn't my point.

To phrase it a little better: if some country is committing atrocities at scale, then I believe any amount of force is justified to bring that to an end.

Yeah, sorry, after rereading your comment, I realized I may have responded to a point you didn't quite make.

History has demonstrated that kind of thinking is going to harden resolve. It's militarily useless and morally repugnant.