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There really is a distinction between legitimate warfare and atrocity. There's a difference between self defense and acts of murder. Even in war, there are such things as war crimes.
Jeffrey's defense of Sharon is premised on the notion that these differences are meaningless. Thus war crimes are legitimate in war, murder is the same as self defense and atrocities are the same as battles.
The world rejects those standards. Israel rejects those standards. And if, as Jeffrey and everyone else is prepared to concede, Sharon actually committed murders, atrocities and war crimes... then we have no choice but to condemn him as a monster.
