The latest quarterly report on Afghanistan civilian casualties from the United Nations once again is bad news, unsurprising since all other reports on the Afghan War for months have been worse and worse.
The UN report says civilian casualties from US and Afghan airstrikes in Afghanistan are up over 50 percent from last year, with increasing casualties not just from the US, but from the increasingly aggressive Afghan Air Force.
This should be unsurprising too, as the US has been massively escalating the number of bombs dropped on Afghanistan, reaching the highest level in nearly a decade. UN officials say most of the dead are women and children.
The Afghan Defense Ministry issued a statement immediately condemning the UN report as false, insisting that “it is quite obvious” the Taliban kill more civilians, even though the specific report being addressed was on air strikes, and the Taliban has no Air Force.
This was inevitable, since the speed, striking power and flexibility of the airforces are just about the only advantage the US and its allies possess. Naturally the Afghans, knowing what will happen to them if the US does a Vietnam, see no reason for restraint at all. If I ran the US, I’d have abandoned Afghanistan long ago. But of course I’m not an Afghan, and I live, thank God, many thousands of miles away from the place.
You can’t move mud from the air, and they’re too chicken to go hiking the mountains looking for trouble.
It’s nothing more than killing for killing’s sake. They’re out of control.
The powers that be do make a lot of money from their wars and killing. But they also seem to do it for amusement and to help themselves feel viriles (“I’m THE MAN…all those dead people were loosahs…”)