*I'm not sure I do accept the distinction.
If you drop a bomb on a group of 30 people, the majority of whom are women and children and then you just say 'oops, we didn't mean it, I don't think that is civilised at all. If I had witness such batbaric savagery, then one death in far away London would seem small fry.
Is killing innocents hand to hand more barbaric then taking out whole families with a drone attack? Personally, I do not think so.*
personally neither do i