No, we didn;t take out a suburb, but as you said yourself, "There are ALWAYS nearby innocents" but, hey ho, wrong time and wrong place, nothing to be done.

Again, the body count matters, I assume? There's a carefully decided limit to how many "nearby innocents" can be killed? I mean, 10 is okay, but 100 is not?

Is there an age limit factor? Like, you could kill 30 1 year olds for the same price as one 30 year old?

And as CNN airs the footage of the pieces of little 5 year old Zak and the rest of his family, who were 'nearby innocents', you'd be fine that Cuba had only slightly violated American sovereignty when it raided that neighborhood, and you'd be satisfied that Cuba had launched just the most 'minimal' attacks in its strike?

You don't think the IRA were 'hell bent' on taking the six counties away from the UK? Or that the Brighton bomb Attack wasn't a 'hell bent' attempt at assassinating the British government?

We either respect national borders or we do not.

If we do not then we must accept that others don't have to respect ours.