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After a Pentagon investigation, DOD said nobody will be held accountable for the mistakes that resulted in civilians, most who were children, killed in a drone strike. Recall that this strike was immediately championed as a successful drone strike that prevented another suicide attack at the Kabul airport. Later the attack was walked back as a mistake to include what will be payments made to those families killed.
There still is the international investigation that is ongoing but within the U.S., this is it. Surprised they didn’t wait another couple weeks and announce this over the holidays.
Has there ever been a clean war? People in an urban environment wearing civilian clothes. I suppose it’s a fundamental tragedy of humankind that people can’t settle issues without killing each other. But we live in the real world. And all our troops over the years killed by friendly fire.
After a Pentagon investigation, DOD said nobody will be held accountable for the mistakes that resulted in civilians, most who were children, killed in a drone strike.
After a Pentagon investigation, DOD said nobody will be held accountable for the mistakes that resulted in civilians, most who were children, killed in a drone strike. Recall that this strike was immediately championed as a successful drone strike that prevented another suicide attack at the Kabul airport. Later the attack was walked back as a mistake to include what will be payments made to those families killed.
There still is the international investigation that is ongoing but within the U.S., this is it. Surprised they didn’t wait another couple weeks and announce this over the holidays.
This drone strike was different. The urge to “do something” was high and the military had no control of the avenues leading right up to the Kabul airport. Thus added risk and push to make a decision to strike, then after the strike, politicians came flying on camera to celebrate that an attack had been averted, which they later had to sheepishly walk back.
In any other friendly fire or civilian attack (Kuduz hospital being one), there are active direct fire engagements which directly threaten U.S. forces,
See the difference if the blinders aren’t on. Not holding anyone accountable on this is a political decision.
This drone strike was different. The urge to “do something” was high and the military had no control of the avenues leading right up to the Kabul airport. Thus added risk and push to make a decision to strike, then after the strike, politicians came flying on camera to celebrate that an attack had been averted, which they later had to sheepishly walk back.
In any other friendly fire or civilian attack (Kuduz hospital being one), there are active direct fire engagements which directly threaten U.S. forces,
See the difference if the blinders aren’t on. Not holding anyone accountable on this is a political decision.
No, the sense of military urgency was the same. There had already been a successful bomb attack. The pressure to prevent the next one was absolutely the same military forces involved would suffer in any combat situation. It did not take any special pressure from the White House.
No, the sense of military urgency was the same. There had already been a successful bomb attack. The pressure to prevent the next one was absolutely the same military forces involved would suffer in any combat situation. It did not take any special pressure from the White House.
Of course. How silly of us to think the Afghan drone strike, during the evacuation debacle, was any different than actual combat operations in all the other errant attacks. It’s the first errant drone strike to have multiple senior leaders and politicians prancing out with hours to congratulate the drone operators, with fake confidence, that the errant drone strike killed a ISIS bomber.
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