Tell me why an "occupying force" would go to so much effort to save one foreign girl. Tell me how the insurgents, if encountering a American child, would hesitate for a moment before kidnapping or killing her. Tell me how Saddam or his forces would have lifted a finger to save her as one of their own people.

No, that's not what makes it "okay." We continually go out of our way to injure or kill civilians, but it's never "okay" when we fail in that objective.

That, and hundreds of other stories like it, are what makes it worth it.