Last Wednesday, a NATO airstrike against the Kapisa Province ended with eight children dead and the Afghan government deploying a team including a number of MPs to try to figure out how it happened.
NATO, incredibly, is just getting around to officially comment on the killings, and would insist only that its officials “found” the dead children at the site of the attack, and that they can’t “confirm nor deny” that the airstrike is what killed them.
NATO’s denials are usually a bit behind the game, but in this case it seems doubly absurd, as the Afghan government had already confirmed that an informant in the area had told French occupation forces that the children were “terrorists” planning to attack the village, which led to the strike on them.
Thus while NATO can’t, apparently, say for sure that bombing the children is what killed them (they might’ve all spontaneously combusted before the explosives landed) it seems more than a little disingenuous of NATO to feign ignorance. After all, what NATO really wanted to say was also buried in the statement, and that was that the killings were “carried out according to NATO rules on airstrikes.”
Consider the possibility that –with the daring and dastardly guile characteristic of AQ(your acronymn here) children –acting opportunistically and with great haste –they bombed eachother just prior to the missile so righteously launched from from the holy NATO ordinance vehicle. …or that each bombed themselves individually after a group high-five in celebration of the opportunity to embarass NATO with their hairless tiny carcasses… …or the short straw among 'em bombed the lot of 'em just in case NATO misses.
Welll… no. That's not how it happened. ^^
You're right. NATO can embarrass itself just fine.
No,of course not! It was Iran who did it.Just ask Bibi.
Just imagine if someone kill five children for pleasure in New-york city or in London. The Vatican will intervene, the human right, the ICC,the security counsel, the cnn, the bbc, the new york time, the whole world will cry. and the place of the crime, will be called ground Zero. But those poor dead children of afganistan will be buried like silently like dogs, this is the world we are living in.
"carried out according to NATO rules on airstrikes." – As so often before I think the important information we lack – and which never seems to get adequately answered is 'what are the rules of engagement' or in this case 'NATOs rules on airstrikes' which most frequently results in something revoltingly close to "oh its ok – we're allowed to do that" . Surely the ROE's have a bit more depth than "try hard not to kill each other" ..but I wonder.
NATO ROEs are roughly analogous to the situations in which American police officers use their tasers on old women during traffic stops.
The NATO murderers and their partner, called the coalition of the killing, will someday pay for their hienous crimes. Suppose Iraqis,Libyans, and Afgans go to NATO countries and murder their people. Well, I guess the won't. They're more civilized than the murderous barbarians. Don't you agree?
looking at how the US was born, I agree.
Are they gonna try to blame the parents again?