The US is eager to brag about their record number of airstrikes in the ISIS war, with the rate of growth in the number of strikes launched limited only by their ability to get enough weapons to drop on people. Officially, the death toll has remained trivial, albeit increasingly non-credible.
NGOs keeping track of the number of civilians the US is killing show a different story, however, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights putting the death toll at 225 over the last month, which by their reckoning is the most civilians the US has killed in any one month span of the ISIS war.
That’s a conservative estimate too, even though it’s likely more than 10 times what the Pentagon will admit to. Indeed, Air Wars themselves counted 230 civilians killed in a single US strike in Mosul, and they too recognize that the civilian toll is continuing to rise precipitously.
The Pentagon, of course, noticed that incident where they killed 230 people, and talked about it in several press briefings. When it came time to offer the official report on civilian casualties for the month, however, it was completely absent from their very short list of admitted to incidents, and no explanation was offered.
The US arms, funds and trains their enemies so later they can use as an excuse to attack them they are a threat to world peace and especially the US. The US is the largest arms dealer on the planet by far.
“Thou shalt not kill” means if you kill, no matter how and no matter why, there are serious consequences for your soul which you cannot escape. Self-defense is no exception. The only religion which once understood this Mosaic law was the Greek Christian Orthodoxy which demanded that soldiers who had killed an enemy in battle still had to confess. Western Christianity totally ignores Matthew 5:17 and a lot more. It venerates killing.
Where is Ivanka? Is she going to show daddy all the dead civilians he is killing?