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In the last few months, however, a civilian airliner was downed in eastern Ukraine by a sophisticated Russian-made missile, tensions have increased around disputed islands in the South and East China Seas, and chaos in the Middle East has continued to spread.

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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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