At the Becker-Cafe series this week, Jens David Ohlins talked about the concept of war crime, something I had previously known very little about. Even though I had to leave fairly early, there was something that Professor Ohlins said that really caught my attention–and not in a good way. Through the course of a war, the United States apparently has the ability to chalk down the deaths of innocent civilians if they were just “collateral damage” as a part of a military operation. The sad thing about this fact, though, was that for some reason, it wasn’t that surprising to hear that this was the case. The fact that it’s legally okay to kill hundreds of people as long as they’re just “collateral damage” disgusts me, and I wish with all my heart that this wasn’t the way it was.