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bigtree
(85,920 posts)...the silence on this is shameful. This goes to the very heart of U.S. military involvement there, which has been in the form of airstrikes and drone attacks for a decade now with barely a peep from the American press or public.
Link to tweet
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/17/pentagon-us-drone-strike-kabul-killed-ten-civilians-no-terrorists/8379462002/
marble falls
(56,371 posts)... feud than statecraft, even if they had gotten the "right" people. When the war is over, the fighting stops.
bigtree
(85,920 posts)...reminds me of a Lincoln quote:
"A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!"