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I'm not reading it as a mistake. I read it as farmers along with ISIS fighters who were mixed in with the farmers were killed. Collateral damage, guilt by association. Not saying it's justified, just that this initial report is saying they got their targets but took out others in the process.
Well that incident created about 100 new terrorists vowing revenge. Then we'll spend a couple million and soldiers lives trying to kill the 100 terrorists we created, and in the process create another 100. Great strategy !
i agree lets just leave them alone and make sure we keep them out of our country
I'm not reading it as a mistake. I read it as farmers along with ISIS fighters who were mixed in with the farmers were killed. Collateral damage, guilt by association. Not saying it's justified, just that this initial report is saying they got their targets but took out others in the process.
So lets say your neighborhood might have a few terrorists.
So we should napalm the entire area just to be sure..
Let's say your living room has a few terrorists.
Let's send in a drone carrying a smart bomb just to be sure.
Point ia, did those people even know? And if they did, do you think they even wanted to be in that situation? Too dangerous to resist, and you need your livelihood so you cant really afford to leave.
To be clear it was a mistake. I'm not outraged at all whatsoever (and I think it would be deeply hypocritical to be outraged).
But I wonder if trying to forcible turned Afghanistan into a multicultural cosmopolitan metropolis with foriegn investors and a global trade network is a good thing.
Maybe its better for them to leave them as a tribal society; I know feminists and humanitarians in Kabul are scared to death of America leaving but does Kabul really need to be the next Almaty of central Asia?
Well...one thing for sure is that there will be no reparations for it.
Nothing new since 2001 in Afghanistan we have killed thousands of non combatants...but since its us we just dismiss it as "collateral" damage/oops. However when the shoe is on the other foot we go ballistic foam at the mouth call it terrorism and whomever is behind it another Hitler. This is what happens when you got the most sophisticated weapons and surveillance capabilities known to mankind...ya cant id people so just launch missiles and blow everything up and dismiss it when ya miss or kill a herd of innocents.
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