Re: dinosaur metaphor, and complementing @Shiden:
Part of the reason the dinosaurs went extinct when smaller animals survived was they needed much food to sustain their large bodies. As the food supply dwindled, they were unable to find enough nourishment and died out.
@robbini yea obviously, the point is that they are not just acting like they are in the right and the empire in the wrong but they actually believe it. they actually believe that they did nothing wrong using civilians as human shields and condemn the empire for putting the civilians lives at risk.
@Robbini, Normandy had more then 220k battle causalities, as wiki tells me, from allied side. Not that far from Gallipoli's ~300k.
@duylinh, agreed. Kinda off-putting, though nothing new. Also nice jab about soviets, didn't think about this hypocrisy. Either way governments are still milking sweet PR from the operation.
@Nayn
im so glad someone posted this, adding to this the Dinos were not able to adapt to the changing colder climates, just like the Concorde couldnt shift from its hyper specialized utility, while massive carrier planes became the trend.