In my earlier post on "Collateral Damage" and in my sermon on Sunday, Dec 30, 2007, with the same title, my intent was to focus in somewhat narrowly on the issue of murder and of softpedalling a particular form of murder by calling it "collateral damage."
My comments were not about warfare in general, nor about the justification for war, nor the fact that freedom comes with a price.
Yet I did intend to raise the question that, when we consider the price of liberty and measuring that cost in human lives, we must be able to look at ourselves in the mirror and know that we haven't bought our freedom at the cost of innocent lives.
Accidents happen, in peacetime and in war, but the morals and ethics upon which our society is supposed to be founded should/would argue that those "accidents" be strictly minimized and investigated and, if found that the acts are, indeed, wanton and murderous, prosecuted.
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