But to go to war is to go to the bottom of the pit: what if those tragedies are not "collateral damage" but war itself, the essence of war?
Now, if there was not collateral damage, if this was just a matter of my politics or being able to persuade the American people to my side, then I would just stick to my guns, because the fact of the matter is the American people already agree with me.
"Rape and sexual violence are not collateral damage.
Finally, this study establishes that most VL/VM axons which enter the grafts are not collaterals of thalamofrontal axons.
Americans don't understand, he said, "the agony we go through" to make sure that there aren't collateral deaths in drone strikes.
Treasury's involvement, Wyden stressed, would ensure taxpayers aren't collateral damage. .
But it is not without collateral damage.
It is not always "collateral damage".
"The I.M.F. has only $200 billion of its own resources, which is not enough collateral," Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the fund, said.
However, antibiotic usage is not without collateral effects.
