I am in the Army, and from what i have seen first hand, at least in our current situation, there are no innocent civilians. They all play their role.
And the Army does have one arm tied behind their back, at the very least. Do you have any idea how common it now is for a guy (innocent civilian) to decide to open fire on unsuspecting American soldiers, then drop his weapon, and put his hands in the air? Guess what? I got two dead friends, but if i shoot this unarmed man, I spend the rest of my life in jail. Awesome, right?

And do you have any idea how many IED or EFP storage sights we find? The good old media makes it sound like the IED really is just a simple "improvised" explosive devise, and it is don't by only the bad guys, but poor civilians are associated with it. Why then have I seen entire building, homes, etc FULL, packed to the doors and windows, of EFP plates and containers? All IDENTICAL, so perfectly formed and identical to one another that it is obvious that all 3,000 of them must have been made in a factory. Improvised my ass.
Then we find these factory made EFP and IED's and materials inside countless "innocent civilians' homes"
Guess what, can't prove anything (somehow) and they all walk away, just so we can see the exact same person setting up an IED a week later, or opening fire on us then dropping his weapon and surrendering.
The kids ask you for food and candy, so even though you might be down to a single MRE for the day, you decide to give them what you can, just so they can start saying "f*ck you AMERICAN, F*ck YOU, I hoe you die American!" and they and all their little innocent children friends throw rocks at you and your vehicles.
I know rocks won't kill me, but when that same 12 year old grabs an AK-47, what do we do? Get shot? or Kill him? Because even if one of us kills that little **** to save countless American soldiers, guess what? We are bad and evil people for killing "a poor, innocent, confused child"

This whole subject in f*cked up.
If you haven't been their
If you haven't heard the sounds
Seen the images
Had a f*cking mental breakdown from the emotional overload

Then don't chime in and act like a f*cking expert on the matter.
In WWII we realized that the war was killing hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and civilians. It was completely leveling entire cities that had been their from a few decades to a couple hundred years. It was wasting all the money, and resources or every nation involved.
So what did we do? The USA and Australia dropped a bomb, it was very effective. The Japanese still weren't ready to call it quits, so we dropped another bomb. There you go, war is over. Yes, the bombs killed innocent people, yes they leveled entire cities.
But you know what else was leveling cities and killing countless innocent people? THE ENTIRE WAR. The bomb though cost less money, used less material, and actually killed less people than the rest of the war. And it worked a whole lot faster and more effectively too.

F*ck the middle east. They have been the number one source for terrorist activity all over the world for over a hundred years. They have been killing innocent people the whole time. They have been killing each other the whole time. Any truelly "innocent" people have long left those countries. Everyone left in those countries is guilty of something.
We need to drop a bomb, and end this sh*t once and for all. All you new age tampon wearing, flower power f*cks can argue all you want, but just like WWII, dropping a bomb in the end will save more lives than it takes, it will cost less money, it will use less material, and it will work much faster and more effectively.

Thats MY view on the situation.