Time after time, The Times and I'm sure other respectable publications report about the US military making a mistake, a miscalculation, a necessary-evil, etc. which ended up killing scores of innocent people, including women and children. I wish the days when men, like so many rabid chimps, would go fight each other on a field somewhere were back. Now, it's a free for all in the cities, the towns and the villages, just kill everybody. Not long ago, we saw the images from Afghanistan where American military killed a bunch of innocent people by mistake. OOPS, I did it again. Really?!!!! Of course, right opposite such articles are those on home decorating in the Hamptons, etc. THESE ARE PEOPLE YOU KILLED. FOR EACH ONE PERSON MURDERED THERE ARE FORTY IN MOURNING. Why did the Afghans submit to the Taliban so quickly? Maybe it was better than the alternative of foreign boots on their soil. No matter how awful the Taliban is, it is Afghani. The US can learn something from the blatant imperialism of the Chinese. When was the last time they attacked some country they want to influence? Sure, China wants Hong Kong and Taiwan, but it considers those little pimples on its ass, theirs. And probably rightly so.
WE CAN'T MAKE FRIENDS WITH PEOPLE WHOSE COUNTRYMEN WE KILL BY MISTAKE. It just makes us look callous and incompetent. And reporting about it after the fact, makes little difference to the dead or their families.
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