When terrorist regimes kill civilians, their death is deemed deplorable, but what did one expect from the regime? When a democratic state kills civilians, though, even unintentionally, it's the breakdown of civilisation and of International Law. Why this double standard? Why shrug off the civilians' death in one case but wring the hands in the other, solely depending on the moral status of the perpetrator? To the victims, their status is irrelevant. Not so to some intellectuals, it seems. And therein lies a peculiar form of racism.

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