[bruoz]

"Is it acceptable when enemies of the United States kill civilians and dismiss those casualties as "besides the point"?

No. We have been known to drop a-bombs on them.

[Publius6961]

Is it acceptable when enemies of the United States kill civilians and dismiss those casualties as "besides the point"?

Those are your words, and again irrelevant.

It has happened countless times whether you and I or anyone else approves, or labels it by any current feel-goodism, or physical or moral cowardice masquerading under the guise of moral superiority.