>The obvious lesson learned is "keep the media strictly controlled or you'll lose at home".

Actually, the obvious lesson that Europeans should have learned after Hitler invaded Poland is that appeasment does not mean peace.

>>Are you saying that the US military deliberately attacked civilians?
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>Yes. I have seen enough of that while my country was bombed. Cluster bombs thrown to a marketplace, footage from a Tommahawk missile aiming at a civilian train (150+ dead) as it crosses a bridge, a pedestrian bridge bombed on a Sunday noon when it's full of people etc etc.

You are quite insane.

>>Are you saying that the US soldiers take money to deliberately target civilians?
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>They are professionals in the sense that they get paid for what they do. And they do target civilians. It just takes some control of the media to create a different image.