What happened was terrible, but this time, I am not going to allow JazzyFresh to get away with not providing context.
What happened on the 29th of August, under Biden’s watch, is just the latest tragedy resulting from America’s involvement with Afghanistan….
Growing up, American history was my favorite subject in school. We were taught, in so many words, in so many lessons, that we were the ones wearing the white hats. Well, the war in Vietnam changed that perception forever. Ain’t nobody wearing white hats….
The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
watson.brown.edu
The United States military in 2017 relaxed its rules of engagement for airstrikes in Afghanistan, which resulted in a massive increase in civilian casualties. From the last year of the Obama administration to the last full year of recorded data during the Trump administration, the number of civilians killed by U.S.-led airstrikes in Afghanistan increased by
330 percent.
In 2019 alone, more than two civilians each day were killed in airstrikes by the US or its allies.
www.bbc.com
We may never know how many innocent people US forces killed during the War on Terror – and that’s intentional, writes Josh Marcus
www.independent.co.uk
Ahmad Naser will very likely be forgotten in the US, where the vast, uncounted mass of civilians slain by Americans remains far outside the popular understanding of 9/11. On that day, 2,977 people were killed, and the US has avenged these innocents many hundreds of times over. US airstrikes alone have killed as many as
48,308 civilians, according to conflict monitor Airwars.
But neither the public, nor the victims’ families, will likely ever get a full accounting of the deaths. The American government has steadfastly avoided true accountability on the ‘War on Terror’, from explicitly refusing to count bodies, to half-heartedly committing to transparency, to outright revelling in the killing of innocents.
