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bigtree

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Sat Sep 18, 2021, 09:16 AM Sep 2021

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10 civilians, NO terrorists killed bigtree Sep 2021 #1
This is a sort of embodiment of what our experiance in Afghanistan has been. This seems more ... marble falls Sep 2021 #2
absolutely right, marble falls bigtree Sep 2021 #3

bigtree

(85,920 posts)
1. 10 civilians, NO terrorists killed
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 11:33 AM
Sep 2021

...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.





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)
2. This is a sort of embodiment of what our experiance in Afghanistan has been. This seems more ...
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 11:50 AM
Sep 2021

... feud than statecraft, even if they had gotten the "right" people. When the war is over, the fighting stops.

bigtree

(85,920 posts)
3. absolutely right, marble falls
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 02:38 PM
Sep 2021

...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!"

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