Innocent people always die in war. It's unavoidable.
I'm not saying the West is completely innocent but it's so easy to contribute negative results of war towards the UK and the US. I didn't watch the whole video, but i've seen a lot like it. Early on that scene where the helicopter pilot was ordered to fire on people waking in the street, those people were reporters carrying cameras and equipment and were mistaken for hostiles. It's sad and unfortunate, but it doesn't point to soldiers being "evil" just for kicks.
There were a lot of civilian deaths from the wars in the Middle East but there have been a lot of casualty studies (From different countries including the UN as a whole) that show a large number of those civilian deaths out there have been the result of terrorists using people as human shields and suicide bomb jockies.
I've heard of a lot of scenarios where soldiers and doing a patrol, and are fired upon from a house somewhere on a farm. The soldiers return fire or get artillery/air support and destroy the house. Upon inspection of the house, in addition to the terrorist bodies there is a a few women and children there as well. Is it correct to blame the soldiers for those innocent deaths? Not at all.
I've heard of very similar events over the years. Such as children having to go through an American military base to get to their school. The soldiers who stand guard outside always greet the children and give them high fives as they walk through the gates. Well one day someone put a bomb in a childs backpack in order to detonate it when the kid was passing through the gate. I believe in addition to the child carrying the bomb a few more children had died and only 1 soldier was injured. That was a video I saw not too long ago, and I can't seem to find it now unfortunately.
The Western powers are large and well documented. So it's easy to find negative things about them. What we don't get to see is the terrible things that THE BAD GUYS are doing. Those people don't care about innocent lives, they will do anything in attempts to kill Westerners.
Every war takes innocent lives, whether that be from accidental crossfire to the overwhelming power of explosions used in military operations, to even a few soldiers doing terrible things on purpose. War and it's consumption of life (lol Metal Gear) is terrible and cannot be 100% controlled and accounted for. Each side has their fair share of hurting/killing civilians, the difference is at least from the West most of those were accidents.
People can criticize the war all they want and that's totally fine. But i'm tired of hearing that soldiers are the devils lap dogs sent to murder innocent people. If the West really didn't care at all, they could have used much more extreme measures.
