Civilian Casualties - They're Okay Now

I'm still not seeing any outcry over the new standards for bombing Syrian and Iraqi civilians. Can't even find a MSM link on a Google search aside from one Fox News story.: https://www.google.com/search?q=standard+care+doesn%27t+apply+to+syria&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb#q=standard+does+not+apply+to+syria+airstrikes&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&tbm=nws

Eleven airstrikes each were conducted in Iraq and Syria by U.S. warplanes, officials with U.S. Central Command said in a statement. Separately, British officials said they conducted their first two airstrikes in Iraq since joining the military campaign. Combined, the action surpassed Sept. 23 — the first with strikes in Syria — as the day with the most airstrikes in the two countries.

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Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said Tuesday that the latest strikes in Iraq and Syria show that the United States will continue to go after the Islamic State. But he warned that the campaign will take time, and that the militants still pose a threat.

  WaPo

The Islamic State. Who calls them that? Is that our name for them so that we can say we are at war with a state? Otherwise, I don't think a state can legally declare war on an organization, can it? Must do some research.

The self-designated Islamic State (IS; Arabic: الدولة الإسلامية‎ al-Dawlah al-Islāmīyah), which previously called itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL /ˈaɪsəl/) or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS /ˈaɪsɪs/; Arabic: الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام‎) and is also known by the Arabic acronym Dāʻish (داعش), is an unrecognized state and a Sunni jihadist extremist group active in Iraq and Syria in the Middle East.

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The group has been described by the United Nations[30] and the media as a terrorist group, and has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.

  Wikipedia

So they gave themselves the designation of a state, but they are unrecognized by any other physical state government. So we’re still going at this with the claim that we are fighting a “war on terror.” But, it’s not a war, so Obama doesn’t need Congressional approval, of course.