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Given the logistics involved in large-scale wars, there are also significant indirect or second-order effects, such as when a civilian oil tanker on route to Vietnam with fuel for America's forces there ran aground on the coral island of Kiltan in the Laccadives.

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The news about civilian casualties is also less bad than it used to be.

And they also do not properly account for civilian suffering more generally.

Thus, even though every civilian killed, maimed, raped, or tortured is one too many, the fact that the number of civilian casualties is clearly lower today than it was a decade ago, is good news.

We should have limited ourselves very, very strictly to the protection of the civilian population in Benghazi.

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