Bad things happen.
Your way of stating "Bad things happen" WRT the second strike is as wrong as calling the first strike entirely legit. The moment we start to excuse bad things with "Bad things happen" we will accelerate our ride down the slippery slopes.
The "collateral murder" video was a selectively edited, perversely annotated, propaganda piece.
For those that has not visited http://www.collateralmurder.com/ for a while i recommend a re-visit. If you dont like the "selectively edited, perversely annotated, propaganda piece", you can watch the unedited full version of the video and make your own opinion what is propaganda and what's not.
But most of all watch Ethan McCords eyewitness story from what happened not only in the video of said incident, but what was the instructed ways of handling incidents on the streets of Baghdad given by US military to its soldiers. Then take a few moments to consider what is your opinion on this.
WRT lessons learned: Don't deal with wikileaks.
WRT lessons learned: Keep yourself well informed. Have an opinion. Do what you can to affect society in the direction YOU think is for the good of all. Like Bradley, like Ethan.
or the insulation requirements of a floor raised up off the ground in a northern climate.
At least that part is not a problem. The common historical way of building farming houses in Sweden is to build the house foundation raised up off the ground resting on rocks lined up around the house base creating a crawling space under the house. In the centre would be a larger rock for the chimney structure to rest on. Its a very solid way to build in a northern climate solving several problems like moisture build up, insulating from a cold ground, making it easy to adjust the house foundation when the ground may rise or sink as the frosting of the ground comes and goes depending on the seasons. Electricity would not be that hard to solve. We do have electricity on trains... Plumbing could be solved same way as like we do on modern trains. Have a septic tank and a fresh water tank in each house. If its very practical and convenient is maybe a question. But its definitely possible to solve.
The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct. -- Ralph Hartley