It's only a massacre if the wrong people die

I came back to the internet to read disturbing stories about Gaza and Iraq. Civilians murdered. In at least one case an entire family cut down.

But it doesn't matter, does it? The dead children won't grow up to be terrorists. The dead mother won't give birth to more "Islamists." (Whatever that is.) The dead father won't take up arms.

When Americans are killed, it is tragic. The same goes for Israelis and, to lesser degrees, to other Westerners.

But when mothers, fathers, and children are cut down in places like Gaza and Iraq it is necessary. War is hell. Someone's going to get hurt. That will teach them.

How long can a civilized nation accept and embrace such blatant lies?