I am as much for killing terrorists as the next guy, but I fail to understand how some things are not clear to most people about this conflict.

To illustrate,
Lets say you and a very good friend of yours are at a bar, I am there too. Your friend comes up to me punches me and gives me a black eye.
I pull out a revolver and shoot at your friend, meanwhile hitting you with a stray bullet in the head and killing you.

Now according to many people here;
- you are not a human being you are just a causualty.
- I have a right to defend myself, so shooting everything in sight is just fine.
- Since you are a friend of the person that hit me you deserve to die as much as he does. If you don't think someone deserves to die because of hitting someone - well let's pretend that your friend went up to me and shoots my friend that is with me. Do you deserve to die then?