Hate to cross-post from my recent post on the "Sewer Board", but looks like we now have conformation from US Military that (5)-(6) civilians died.
Naturally I still have questions on "where the Intel came from" for the US drone strikes or if it might have been deliberately supplied from various hostile actors, but F**K this is not what the US should be doing, even though sometimes the folx running remote centers might have last minute decisions to do before they give the order, but yeah--- still would exactly be the def of a "bad day at work" for the team that made the decision on the US side.
https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=461200.msg8227774#msg8227774
I don't think I can put into words how much it infuriates me when American media outlets have the gall to talk about the "humanitarian mission" of Afghanistan while using any excuse to brush off the mass slaughter of innocents.
Blow up kids? Well, guns were found in the area so they were actually
armed insurgents!
Blow up an entire wedding? Well, one of the attendees was a
known terrorist so by associative property that means they must have all been
dangerous terrorists!
Blow up whole families after claiming "no civilian casualties"? Well it must be because the
dastardly terrorists loaded their vehicle with Wile E. Coyote levels of TNT!
No critical analysis, no asking questions like whether it's possible that the professional lying spies at the CIA or the professional ass coverers at the DOD might not give us the straight truth, just parroting whatever they're told by the local functionary of the American Empire. So much for the "free press".
It hasn't even been established that the victims were "ISIS planners" at all. Of the two possible "terrorists" one was an interpreter who worked with the US and the other was a former ANA officer. It's not impossible that they were secretly ISK leaders who were caught at the last second but I'm going to need a hell of a lot more than "don't worry they were totally evil terrorists guys" from the people who brought us yellowcake, "Iran is five years away from nuclear weapons" and the Libyan Civil War.
Even assuming that much, it doesn't follow that therefore the
only option is to obliterate at least a half dozen innocents with a missile. It's like responding to a hostage situation by immediately shooting the hostage and acting like there's no alternative.
The logic of the attack was basically summed up by the people responding to the news with pictures of the dead Marines from the airport attack. I'm rarely disgusted by tweets but the idea that the blood of innocents is somehow payback for the lives of those Marines genuinely
disgusts me to my core. The idea that the blood of Americans should be repaid with the blood of random foreigners is the single worst mainstream idea, and it's exactly what got America into this whole mess back in 2001.
Only slightly better are the people brushing this all off because of partisanship. I never thought the responsibility for the disaster of a withdrawal fell on Biden and his willingness to stick to the withdrawal despite the media pressure improved my opinion of him but this drone strike is like the swan song of 20 disastrous years of American imperialism. Meanwhile the very same stooges who talk about how much they care about Afghan refugees don't care that the entire family of one of those interpreters was
blown up seemingly so Biden could act tough because the Biden Administration looking bad is worse than mass murder.
"Oh well people won't care in a few weeks nobody cares about Afghanistan" - Well maybe you
should careEDIT: really sums it up
https://twitter.com/MazMHussain/status/1432083953750626312
Poll
