A battle between Afghan forces and Taliban fighters left at least 28 civilians dead when a rocket fired during the fight hit a nearby wedding party, tearing through it.
28 were confirmed killed, but provincial officials said it could be as high as 30, with 60 others wounded. Survivors said at least nine children remain missing.
Who fired the rocket was conspicuously not mentioned in initial reports of the incident, though later reports confirmed it was indeed the Afghan military that had caused the deaths.
Afghan forces have been fighting with the Taliban in Helmand Province for years, and the fighting has picked up dramatically in the past few months, with Taliban taking large amounts key districts in the opium-rich province.
The great historian Howard Zinn — “If you don’t know history, it’s as if you were born yesterday.”
So, reflecting on the history of Empire USA, as it has been ruled by warlords and drug-lords since 1776, it could be said that it’s all our fault that the Afghan Civil War has corrupted their nation such that it exports 95% of all the opium grown on earth.
But then, Afghanistan has been ruled by warlords and drug-lords for over a thousand years so they would have to be equally at fault.
But then, since the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and for 2,300 years the nations of Western European that founded our Empire, surely they have been ruled by warlords and drug-lords.
And so, as we know all the history there is to know about this problem, how can it be said that were now better off then if we had been born yesterday?
Is the US purposely bombing big gatherings of civilians? This has become more than a coincidence now.
You can't have a "war on terror" without a bunch of pissed-off people. Forest and trees people!!! Wake the F— UP!!! The more "terrorists" in the world to kill, the more money reaped in by the unaccountable military/industrial/security complex! The definition of "terrorist" has expanded enormously since 911 as anyone who stands up against the insanity is now considered a "terrorist"! Senator Joe McCarthy is probably having wet dreams in his coffin.
Getting married seems to be one of the most dangerous activities in Afghanistan.
Likely to have been quite deliberate, a sign of desperation.
If it was indeed the Afghan forces that fired the rocket you can be sure that it was made in the US. Even if the Taliban fired it, it could well have been a US made rocket.
Maximizing guilt — By a sadistic society that maximizes pleasure by guilt
Have you happened to notice how it’s never the educated city people that get hit with our collateral murder? Nor does that upper half of society with all the wealth ever get murdered by our Special Forces death squads, for the Afghan laboring-class just cannot get use austerity and the idea that their kids must slowly starve to death.
So, by our high value targets being laboring-class kids, it being the best way to maximize vengeance, maximize terrorism and maximize the explosions needed to gain high value profit, does this not maximize the guilt in you and I for allowing it to happen?