Indeed, it's a very strange line that hasn't been called-out sufficiently in rhetoric. What does "put lives in danger" really mean? It seems to be a deliberate

Indeed, it's a very strange line that hasn't been called-out sufficiently in rhetoric. What does "put lives in danger" really mean? It seems to be a deliberate blurring of the lines of culpability. Most things "put lives in danger," in some sense (a just war, the invention of the automobile, rock climbing). Obviously the benchmark for what is acceptable must be much stricter than "put lives in danger," particularly when it's the lives militants.