The U.S. dropped 7,423 bombs on Afghanistan in 2019, Children killed (Iran, middle east)

[Harpaint]

Originally Posted by happly retired

you are worried about 115 civilians in some hell hole and not worried about the 90 cops killed so far this year in america?

Who said that? They aren't mutually exclusive you know.

[happly retired]

Originally Posted by kajo13

So you're saying people are incapable of caring about more than one atrocity? Well, that sure explains a lot about Trumpers.

no the op clearly was talking about all the deaths in another country and did not mention one word about the killings here

nice try

[FreedomPenguin]

Not a big deal. Collateral, better them then us.

[ATX Wahine]

It’s called war for a reason, and war is hell.

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by kajo13

Not true. A lot of us (major Obama supporters)were disgusted that Obama authorized these types of strikes. I expected more from him and tried to let him know.

And probably voted for him a second time

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by FreedomPenguin

Not a big deal. Collateral, better them then us.

Because those children posed a threat?

Originally Posted by ATX Wahine

It’s called war for a reason, and war is hell.

So you'd accept that explanation if your house were bombed and children killed?

[r small]

Meanwhile Trump's "peace plan" with the Taliban is a failure:




The U.N. exposes the limits of the Trump peace plan with the Taliban

Contrary to the Trump administration’s peace plan with the Taliban, al-Qaida is more embedded in the Afghan Taliban than ever. The Taliban have not renounced their alliance with al-Qaida. The maintenance of the alliance also raises disturbing questions about Pakistan’s role in sponsoring the Taliban war against the United States and NATO
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order...h-the-taliban/

[Leo58]

Originally Posted by jonbenson

The U.S. dropped 7,423 bombs on Afghanistan in 2019, Children Killed

One hundred and fifteen civilians died in just 10 airstrikes in the U.S. war in Afghanistan in the last two years; more than 70 of them were children


President Trump would like to declare that he has brought back all American troops in Afghanistan before the US presidential election on 3 November. He tweeted on Wednesday: “Bring our soldiers back home but closely watch what is going on and strike with a thunder like never before, if necessary.” The Pentagon is none too happy about this, but keeping US troops in the country for a few more months, after almost two decades of failure, is not going to make much difference.


The U.S. military has dropped tens of thousands of bombs on Afghanistan since it began occupying the country in 2001. This violence has escalated rather than decreased even with the official “end” of the combat mission there in 2014, with the number of munitions dropped on the country hitting an annual record of 7,423 last year.

While the Pentagon states that it does everything in its power to avoid killing and wounding innocent people, it affords scant resources to investigate the actual impact of its strikes. It does not actually track down the victims of airstrikes, relying on its own intelligence and refusing to visit the sites of its strikes or interview eyewitnesses. The grueling work of investigating who these strikes are actually killing and maiming has thus been left to nongovernmental organizations and journalists. The reality they uncover has usually been much uglier than official U.S. government accounts suggest.

After nearly two decades of inconclusive fighting, the United States appears to be preparing to exit Afghanistan. Rather than defeating the Taliban, the U.S. government is putting the final touches on a peace agreement with the group that will allow for a U.S. military withdrawal, but makes few guarantees for peace between the militants and the Afghan central government that was set up during the occupation. Since 2001 the war has killed over 2,300 U.S. service members. No one is sure how many Afghans have died, but even the most conservative estimates put the figure above 100,000 — not counting the many more who have been maimed or driven from their homes by the fighting.

Thanks for posting this. With everyone focused on Covid-19 and George Floyd, it is easy to forget that we still have military operations underway in various parts of the world. We should rightly be asking: what are we doing there and why?

[PotatoMan]

We got a lot more. I read we still have some 500lbs bombs from the Vietnam era. Cheaper to drop them on our enemies than dispose them!

[ATX Wahine]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

So you'd accept that explanation if your house were bombed and children killed?

If my city was dumb enough to hide terrorists among it’s civilians and I was dumb enough to remain there and we were subsequently getting bombed then I would have to deal with those consequences just like everyone else does.