Banjar, your reasoning is fairly easy to comprehend and with several hints to the many that are just trying to derail it, some could qualify as Fox journos and try there flip flopper reasoning over there.
The statistics for handing out sweets to Iraqi kids in the war zone successfully would have outweigh the unsuccessful attempts. That's why they hand them out, it appeared safe to do it back then.
If I was an experienced solder in a dangerous region, war zone, and knew my attendance there was a target for latent fanatical psychopaths driving cars laden with bombs I would not try to surround myself with civilians. However, the American solders, kids (fresh from Mc flipping burgers), with a false sense of security and the confusion of war all around them, are unwittingly creating a group of soft targets by mimicking the ideal scenario the fanatical psychopaths die for, i.e. surround themselves with soft targets and explode.
"The most formidable weapon against errors of any kind is reason"
