Yesterday, in "Why a Muslim American killed five American servicemen", I argued that the motivation for the attacks of "domestic terrorists" on military personnel in the USA (and Canada and Britain) was revenge for American interference in the Muslim vs Muslim wars of the Middle East.
Every now and then, a "radicalized Muslim" kills a soldier or two or five. Virtually every day, troops of the "coalition of the willing" put together by Dubya and continued by the Prez kill dozens or scores or even hundreds of innocent Muslims (along with the occasional ISIS fighter) while bringing American goodness and democracy to the sandpit. The innocent Muslims are "collateral damage".
Today, BBC News reports that at least eight soldiers of the Afghan army -- the ones we're supposed to be helping -- were killed by friendly fire in a US air strike, on an army checkpoint in Logar province south of Kabul. Several more Afghan troops were injured in a helicopter attack in broad daylight.
Guess that more than makes up for Chattanooga, eh.
According to the Beeb, there are still more than 13,000 international troops in Afghanistan, about half of them American. And more have remained for longer than President 0 originally ordered, after he acceded to military requests to slow down the withdrawal.
The only active international fighting units are "assisting" Afghan special forces, and that is the mission that the helicopters believed to have been involved in yesterday's attack would have been engaged in. But every day, somewhere in that wretched country, there are air strikes, mostly from unmanned drones. Statistics recently emerged showing that in June more than 100 bombs were dropped -- more than twice as many as in any other month since combat operations ended.
Who were the targets? Whoever was unlucky enough to be on the ground, including the people we're trying to "help". Yet we wonder why they hate us.
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