MR BOTHA
You don't just sit back in a situation of war and trust the judicial system of that country to sort out your problems and to achieve your objectives for you.
You must act and in some cases such as this, you don't always have the time at your disposal to plan things better than you actually did. I very much would have wanted to have launched the attack against those persons responsible for the attack at the beach front that morning. I would have liked to have directed my attack against them but circumstances were such that I couldn't do that. 
Perhaps here I can give you an example, give you a comparison with something that happened during the second world war.  The Germans dropped bombs on London. Those weren't military targets, those were civilian targets. The British also dropped bombs on Berlin. The American dropped two atom bombs on two Japanese cities. Those weren't military targets.