NP? the cause of civilian deaths in Afghanistan

[MalignD at aol.com]

<<> Our leaders have decided to go ahead and pursue these tactics, despite 
> knowing that the attacks will cause "collateral damage" -- an Orwellian 
> phrase that masks the fact that we're killing innocent civilians  in the 
> process of accomplishing military goals.>>
> 
> Masks the fact to what whey-faced innocent?  It's war; there will be 
> casualties.
> 
> <<I believe, along with many other observers, that the US could have 
accomplished its anti-terrorist goals without launching this war ...>>

Most "other observers" disagree.

<<... from reports of the journalists and aid officials who have actually 
made the
effort to talk to the civilian victims and refugees, it sounds as if many of 
them would prefer not to freeze or starve to death or lose loved ones to US 
bombs.>>

Quote a coup, this story.

<<the kind of triumphalism that marks the mainstream American response to the 
war so far ...>>

So, with characteristic hyperbole, you describe it.

 


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