US Accepts Blame for Afghan Hospital Attack

[kristopher]

41. Wrong layer of input

The article makes no claim that indicates the action was initiated by US Forces.

The article you've provided is careful to delineate that Afghans were in place and that "the Special Operations Forces also apparently did not have “eyes on” — that is, were unable to positively identify — the area to be attacked to confirm it was a legitimate target before calling in the strike, the officials said."

Tied with the assertion that it was a mission to support Afghan troops, and it is clear that intent by US forces isn't the problem. IMO this discussion is pretty pointless in the effort to stop such events.

To do that, we need to move away from war as an instrument of foreign policy. And, to that end it is more beneficial and to the point to acknowledge the inevitability of tragedies like this during ALL war than it is to try to pin the blame on particular people unless those individuals were acting with malevolent intent.

War is a favored tool of an oligarchy.

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