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These incidents are reminiscent of past NATO operations in Afghanistan, in which there was manifestly less care taken to safeguard the lives of local civilians than there would have been if the lives of NATO troops, or their civilian compatriots, had been at risk.

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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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