How I feel about is that we had some very hard choices to make, and we did our best with what we had to work with -- or, at least, what we were led to believe that we had to work with.

If there were secret and sinister agendas at work here (e.g using civilians as part of some kind of power-trip experiment in the same way one might see how many firecrackers it would take to blow a watermelon to smithereens), that would be one thing, and it would be a war crime of the worst sort.

I hope that we won't ever do something like this again.