Saturday’s US attack against the Doctors Without Borders hospital on the outskirts of Kunduz, Afghanistan, appears to have been a problem, and not just because it was an attack on a hospital full of civilians and killed at least 22 people, including a bunch of staff members.
The strike also may have exceeded the troops’ combat authority in Afghanistan, a point which is suggested by Gen. John Campbell talking up new training for special forces troops reviewing not only rules of engagement but “all of our operational authorities.”
Of course killing civilians is a problem in and of itself, but that’s a problem the Pentagon is used to dealing with in Afghanistan, and the new training suggests that there was something more about this incident which is causing alarm about the way it was carried out.
Doctors Without Borders condemned the attack as a war crime, and has announced today that it is “taking stock” of all work in Afghanistan to decide if they can safely remain in the country in the wake of this latest attack against them.
To suggest the subject hospital attack was the work of some rogue soldiers doesn't pass the dumb dumb test. I would not be surprised if Obama himself was somehow involved.
Is it possible that the own-goal feature of the hospital strike has been pretty consistent all along? I mean, if you actually accomplished something, you might have to leave…
in war, the only solution is the Israeli or Russian Solutions. Brute force, your receive incoming fire either from a Hospital, School or Mosque, and you destroy it.
Closing down the civilian hospitals, especially Doctors Without Borders, surely such darkness would greatly increase ability of Empire USA to achieve brutal imperialism and expansion.
The highly respected organization "medecins sans frontier" has every right to be outraged by the U.S. bombing of a hospital, killing patients, doctors, and civilians, and it is certainly possible that this attack was a war crime. What I don't understand is why the U.N. and the U.S. and the E.U. did not label similar Israeli attacks in Gaza as war crimes. The U.S. has been reduced to a supine acceptance of anything that Israel does and is apparently so terrified of Israeli power in the U.S. that it abases itself and brings dishonor on our nation by its cowardice and corruption.
There have been several AW articles on this attack in recent days but we have yet to see any mention of the highly public and vocal opposition of Doctors Without Borders(MSF) to aspects of the trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). That mostly secret trade agreement has also been a big news item recently. They claim that the poor they serve in impoverished countries will suffer and/or die because of extreme medicine costs as a result of extending the US pharmaceutical drug test/approval/intellectual property system to large areas of the world. https://www.corbettreport.com/the-trans-pacific-p…
Prof. Rozeff had an article on the LRC blog yesterday which noted some aspects of the AC-130 gunship capabilities. This was not a young J. McCain roaming about over jungle shooting wildly in a fighter. MSF provided, to whomever was directing this fiasco, the GPS coordinates for their hospital, not that this would be new information for them. And the gunship operated for more than an hour over the hospital in a city in which it could locate every stray cat and fill it full of holes. https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/sorting-out-…
At the risk of sounding paranoid, can we guess at what level of what organization this action might have originated?