> we feel it deeply unjust to allow terrorists to kill innocent people to make a political point Our response was to go over and kill 100 of their innocent civ

> we feel it deeply unjust to allow terrorists to kill innocent people to make a political point Our response was to go over and kill 100 of their innocent civilians for every 1 of our innocent civilians that the extremists killed in order to make our political point. I don't buy the argument that this was premised on any noble principle such as the one you describe.