NOVANEWS
How the US military kills civilians in Afghanistan
The recent complete comments by General Stanley McChrystal to American troops in Afghanistan. Imagine if, say, an Iranian general said this to his men. Sure, we kill countless innocents but they know it’s for their own good. The moral bankruptcy of the mission in Afghanistan:
We really ask a lot of our young service people out on the checkpoints because there’s danger, they’re asked to make very rapid decisions in often very unclear situations. However, to my knowledge, in the nine-plus months I’ve been here, not a single case where we have engaged in an escalation of force incident and hurt someone has it turned out that the vehicle had a suicide bomb or weapons in it and, in many cases, had families in it. That doesn’t mean I’m criticizing the people who are executing. I’m just giving you perspective. We’ve shot an amazing number of people and killed a number and, to my knowledge, none has proven to have been a real threat to the force.
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