AP IMPACT: study suggests drones kill far fewer civilians than many Pakistanis believe

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25. the very serious problem wth your analogy is that most of the civilians that were

killed in Germany, France, Belgium and the rest of Europe were killed between May 1944 and March 1945.

And the civilian population in Europe had pretty much figured out that the war was ending and that the Allies were going to win, starting right after D Day.

My Dad served in the Battle of the Bulge, Dec 1944 to January 1945, and German soldiers were surrendering left and right because they knew it was pointless to fight. Not that this battle was not a hard fought battle - it was. And not that people didn't die on both sides. The Allies experienced a huge loss of life. The Germans were hurt even worse than we were. But people understood the war would be over by summer of 1945 at the latest.

Contrast that with the USA's "War on Terror." This war is on going. It appears to be an eternal war, fought by the largest military power on earth, against peoples in third world nations. We have already explained to the world at large that we get to use our drones against all and any as long as there is even one terrorist out there. And for every civilian we kill, there are huge repercussions. If you were a Pakistani, and yoru teenageer was killedat a wedding,how would you feel?

Already over 4 million people have left Afghanistan. Four million people have left! They have gone to Pakistan, to Australia and to Iran.