"Doug Kanter" wrote in message news:9N2Cb.7842

..... News reports of dead children -
those must be in my imagination.

Not at all, the report are real, and tragic. What is under-reported is the
fact that the target terrorists were successfully hit, target venues were
vetted in advance as clear of civilians, attack pilots saw no children in
the target area (in the one case that involved an open field), and that the
"placement" of civilian casualties is commonplace in that part of the world,
since they know full well that CNN will run the story over and over and
over. Ex post facto reports of civilian casualties must of necessity be
looked upon with a jaundiced eye.