Though the Pentagon has mostly issued blanket denials whenever they’re caught killing civilians in airstrikes against ISIS targets anyhow, officials say their eagerness to escalate the air war against ISIS targets has seen the implementation of new rules allow the US to kill larger numbers of civilians per attack.
The details are still scant, with the official rules likely to remain a secret, but officials say they have implemented a “sliding scale,” based on the region being targeted and the “opportunity.” In some cases, US airstrikes will be allowed to kill 10 civilians per strike.
This was seen previously in incidents where US forces attacked sites believed to contain physical cash. In both cases, the attacks took place in residential neighborhoods, and the Pentagon insisted they were “comfortable” with the number of civilians killed.
Despite officials being pretty open about killing civilians in those cases, the deaths were never included in the official Pentagon figures for civilians killed. Overall, the Pentagon is believed to have killed several hundred civilians in the ISIS air war since 2013, though the official admissions are to only 14 deaths.
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Goethe
They’re not civilians, they’re collateral damage.
Is it still Godwin’s law to call these monsters what they are?
Yes. But Godwin only predicts it will be said, it does not predict that it will be error to say it.
Godwin’s law was created around the EXACT time that the US started an overt change to a fully fascist state; it is an attempt by the oligarch intelligentsia to stifle perfectly rational analogies comparing the paralels of the modern US government with the government of 1930s Germany.
In short, it’s a law that only a Nazi could love…
We don’t care and we don’t care who does. Gawd bless Amurika!
Ok, so Pentagon, what are the consequences and punishment for going beyond the new limit?
Promotions and a pay raise, typically. That’s how Colin Powell moved up the ranks – by covering up the Mai Lai massacre…
Democracy, what’s not to love.
Remember the Viet Nam war movie; the narrator commented upon the “hero” reprimanded for killing civilians – “in Viet Nam, that was like handing out speeding tickets at Indianapolis”.
“What does it matter?”
They lie about the numbers anyway. They already kill many more than this. So what if they change rules they don’t follow and lie about anyway?
Pentagon’s New Rules Allow Them to Kill More Civilians in ISIS Strikes
The idea of winning is to kill people & destroy things. Inflict so much pain as to have the other side get so demoralized that they QUIT !
This article states, ” . . . In both cases, the attacks took place in residential neighborhoods” Well, the ISIS forces have to live and sleep and party some where. Why not in residential neighborhoods.
That being said, who is ultimately responsible the deaths of “civilians” that occur there ? I say “civilians” ? Who are categorized as “civilians”, and by whom ?
If everyone is dressed the same, how do your distinguish from 5000 feet ?
“Rules of Engagement”, is self-defeating method of causing the death & injury of our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, moms and dads. Some individuals put a high price on the lives of the enemy, them on their own countrymen. It will not hasten the end of hostilities.
What “new rules”? It is a well established fact that civilian casualties are over 90% with the current “rules”. It sounds like they are adopting policies of the fascist theocracy of Nazi israel where a 100% civilian casualty rate is more than “acceptable”; it is MANDATORY and cause for celebration!
The racist Eisenhower murdered more civilians with the fire bombing of Dresden than the combined toll of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, combined. All 3 targets were not military assets. They were cultural centers with no military assets. GENOCIDE of dissenting people is our “foreign policy”. Obummer has made it our domestic policy as well. Amerikan civilians are also viable targets. There are no rules here as well. The feds proved that when they massacred 80+ civilians in Waco, Texas, 38 were children. There is also the ongoing genocide of the native Amerikan people too.
If there is a God: he is one sick bastard for letting these crimes continue.
No wonder why the rest of the world hates us!
The United States government: the largest and most deadly terrorist organization in the world.
I can’t understand why anyone would be proud to be an inhabitant of this empire (William Crystal stated, with pride, what this country has become)
Nation that tortures POWs, women, and children to the extent that they crush the testicles of male children, which was done to the 2 boys (7 and 9 years of age) of the “911 Mastermind” before they killed them: United States of Nazi israel
Nation with greatest number of troops stationed abroad: United
Sates.
Nation with greatest number of foreign bases: United States.
Nation with troops in greatest number of nations: United States.
Nation with greatest number of troops at sea: United States.
Nation with greatest military use of outer space: United States.
Nation selling the greatest quantity of weaponry to the world:
United States.
Nation selling the greatest quantity of weaponry to the Middle
East: United States.
Nation selling the greatest quantity of weaponry to poor nations:
United States.
Nation giving the greatest quantity of weaponry to other nations:
United States.
Nation giving the greatest quantity of weaponry to proxy fighters
abroad: United States. (ISIS, Alqeda, Taliban)
Nation whose weaponry is used on both sides of the greatest number
of wars: United States.
Nation whose military most often trains two sets of troops to
fight against each other: United States. (Iran Contra)
Nation holding out on ratifying the greatest number of treaties
restricting weaponry and war-making: United States.
Only nation that has dropped nuclear bombs on cities: United
States.
Nation that firebombed a cultural center (Dresden, Germany)
Nation using and selling the most cluster bombs, depleted uranium
weapons, white phosphorus, and napalm: United States. (Fascist theocracy of Nazi israel, Saudi Arabia)
Nation whose military consumes the most petroleum: United States.
Nation that has overthrown the most other governments: United
States.
Nation that has participated in the most wars since World War II:
United States. Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776 The U.S. started every one of them, or joined in without justification or reason. Corporate profit and ZioNazi propaganda are what motivates these inbreeds.
Nation that has dropped the most bombs since World War II: United
States.
Nation that has killed the most people since World War II: United
States.
Nation started 201 Out of the 248 Armed Conflicts Since the End of WWII Most of these conflicts were started because of our involvement with the fascist theocracy of Nazi israel
Nation that uses rape as a weapon of war: United States of Nazi israel
Nation that manufactures most of the torture devices in the world with Nazi israel being our biggest customer: United States of Nazi israel
Only nation in which a presidential candidate has been asked in a
televised debate if he will be willing to kill thousands of innocent
children as part of his basic duties if elected: United States. Something Obummer is already doing, and bragging about.
The civilian casualty rate is over 90% – ON PURPOSE as dictated by the fascist theocracy of Nazi israel. Our closest “ally” who attacked the USS Liberty http://www.gtr5.com/ Shouldn’t the next war be against them? We do seem to relish revenge on mostly innocent people. Of course: there are no innocent people who have citizenship in the fascist theocracy of Nazi israel.