It's against the Geneva Convention to target civilians.
Exactly.
I mean, this shouldn't be a difficult issue.
Its not that easy since a lot of soldiers will use civilians as shields and many armies just dont care about the convention. North Korea certainly wont give a crap for example.
So you're saying we should be more like North Korea?
I'm saying that believing something like a simple convention will suddenly turn all war into a clean-cut gentlemanly conflict in which civilians never get hit in the crossfire, people don't use civilians as shields, and it doesn't become important to do things like disable production capabilities (which results in civilian casualties), all to the tune of a piping kettle and hot cup of tea is stupid. We shouldn't be like North Korea; but we shouldn't act like the convention is also going to just stop civilian casualties except when done by crazy sociopathic lunatics either.
The Geneva Convention isn't meant to stop all civilian casualties, it's meant to minimize the unnecessary loss of life and property and to minimize suffering. ---