<<Did you know that Abriham Lincon intentionally fostered food shortages in the Confederacy, blockaded harbors , shelled citys , confiscated food to feed troops and burning the supplys that the troops couldn't carry away?>>
Yes, I've known all of that since our Grade 9 course. So what? He did not send assassins into civilian homes to murder civilian supporters of the Confederacy. He did not send assassins into Confederate homes on the pretext of seeking out Confederates home on leave.
<<That is a good example because it is Americans vs Americans , but take your pick of any other conflict as you please , I am sure you can find a faction here and there that made an honest effort to minimise civilian suffering , but I really doubt that you can find any that really repudiated the practice of cutting the enemy off from supplys , which will of course always causes the colateral damage of reduceing the associated civilians from supplys.>>
You know, plane, we are talking about an unprecedented action here, American death squads. I believe they originated in the Viet Nam war as the Phoenix program. There is no precedent for this in civilized modern warfare. We did not do this in the Second World War. As far as I know, the fucking Japs didn't do it. The Nazis probably did, only because they sent assassins out after their own right wing (Ernst Roehm's Sturmabteilung a.k.a. the S.A., the original Brownshirts) during the Night of the Long Knives.
If you want to pretend this is the same as blockading civilians or even bombing them, go ahead. However I see a huge difference between terroristic assassination teams that target civilians for liquidation and the other forms of warfare you mention. If you don't see the difference, we will just have to agree to disagree on that point.