With all that in mind, I'd still rather that people leaned towards "that's reprehensible" as a gut reaction to first hearing of it than the alternative. I think

With all that in mind, I'd still rather that people leaned towards "that's reprehensible" as a gut reaction to first hearing of it than the alternative. I think if you ask me on most days I'd say there's legitimate military reasons to be able to combat terrorism in this fashion (especially in this brave new world of near-stateless persons) but it's still the kind of thing that I would want people to be very sensitive about.