Friedman on the New Warfare

The New York Times' Tom Friedman writes with some insight about the Middle East. Referring to the Israel/Palestinian conflict as the "Off Broadway" where you can see what will eventually play out in the larger world, he observes the following:

This is not your grandfather’s battlefield. When the enemy is nested in homes and apartments and no one wears a uniform but everyone has a cellphone camera, you have a real strategic and moral challenge — as the U.S. has discovered with its own drone wars. It’s hard to defeat this enemy without killing a lot of civilians.

Civilians who are complicit in the actions of the enemy get killed, that seems both clear and morally unambiguous.