Innocent people, children included, die in every war. The US did not carpet bomb Iraq or Afghanistan. Many innocent people died nonetheless.
They all be G-d's chillun. No question about it. Maybe someday there will be no more war. In the meantime, confused as it may be, some wars you have to fight. WWII case in point.
The Taliban had to be destroyed, even if it was a creation of Pakistan's ISI and maybe the US as well. No sane person would say that the people of Afghanistan were better off under the cruel oppression of the Taliban unless after it all, the Taliban return and take over again.
Iraq, well, the major intelligence services of the nations thought Saddam and his Arab National Socialist tyranny were acquiring weapons of mass destruction. If we had known, Saddam was a bluffer, or that he already moved his biochem weapons to Syria, then with benefit of hindsight it was a mistake to invade Iraq. That's not to say that Saddam was not a monster who threatened world peace. It is only to say, that by removing Saddam, the West delivered Iraq to Iran, worse monsters who really are acquiring nuclear weapons.
In any case, I think it is sad that Pakistan hid Osama bin Laden for almost 10 years. We might have avoided a lot of pain had we found him and killed him a long time ago.
In the meantime, as to Osama Bin Laden, his supporters, allies and friends, may they all rot in hell.
