The following article by Jason Ditz, which ran yesterday on www.antiwar.com, says all we really need to know about how Barack Obama's war is going in Afghanistan. In every war America initiates or enters, we kill more innocent civilians than enemy troops. That was true in World War II, true in Vietnam, and still true today in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We really do kill women, children, students, and old people. Actually, anyone who scares our troops, and don't kid yourself, our troops are scared to death. Because of that fear, they will pull the trigger at the drop of a hat.
NATO Admits Four Killed Were Civilians, Not 'Insurgents'
Kids Were Driving Home From a Volleyball Game
by Jason Ditz, April 21, 2010
As details of the Monday night shooting along the roads of Afghanistan's Khost Province continue to come out, NATO has revised its initial claim that the four teens killed included two "known insurgents" and two "suspected insurgents," conceding that they were actually all innocent civilians.
The four were driving home from a volleyball game along the highway when a military convoy spotted them. After flashing their lights at the car, the troops opened fire, killing everyone in the car.
The victims included two brothers, Faizullah and Nasratullah Mansour, and their cousins Maiwand and Amirullah Mansour. The eldest, Amirullah Mansour, has recently become a police officer in the region, while the other three were still students.
After the initial denial, NATO is now expressing "regret" over the killings, the second incident of NATO troops attacking a civilian vehicle in a week, and promised to deploy "training teams" to "implement the critical lessons learned." Exactly what those lessons are, besides not killing children on their way home from a volleyball game, are unclear.
