#25 Nobody is sending up drones, directing them to 'target the largest group of innocents you see from up there and let 'em have it !'
What, really? You don't know this? Any gathering of military-aged men is assumed to be a terrorist meeting and is a valid target. It's considered a target of opportunity.
You know what happens when people come to help the injured afterwards? Another strike. It's called a "double tap". How do you people not know this?
“They came here to bring security but they kill our children, they kill our brothers and they kill our people,” said Haji Ghullam Rasoul, whose cousins died in the attack. “We’ve had enough.”
The US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, has stressed that civilian casualties undermine American efforts to pacify the country by inflaming popular opposition."
Also interviewed was Gula Jan, who had brought the bodies of his two young sisters to the Bost Hospital in Lashkar Gah. Their house had also been fired upon by the US-led forces. “My two little sisters were martyred by the foreigners’ rocket,” he said, “and I will not reconcile with the infidels until I can avenge my sisters.”
Ahmad’s father was shot dead by occupation troops when he left his home to get food. “The body of my father was left inside our home for two days because the foreigners did not let us out to bury the body in the cemetery,” he said. “We were scared of being killed. They are cruel and the infidels have no sympathy for us.”
https://www.countercurrents.org/auken230210.htm This was back in 2010. You'd think we'd have won the war by now. But no. We're no closer to winning than we were back then.
How do you not see that murdering civilians is wrong and that by doing so we are only creating more terrorists? It's not only morally wrong, it's tactically foolish. |
