Monday, June 18, 2007
Oh, Sorry. Did We Kill More Of You Civilian People?
US bombers have just killed a dozen more Afghan kids.The overall civilian toll is impossible to estimate. And it is propaganda for both sides. However the most reliable calculation puts the number at as high as eight thousand.
There are no statistics for the number of Afghans killed by Canadian troops but they too will be mockery of a mission designed to "get rid of the Taliban" (a new report says they are stronger than ever) and bring peace and stability to the country.
When Canada says it will help do this by bringing in a hundred huge Leopard tanks, you know what the truth is...or is not.
We mourn every Nato soldier killed in Afghanistan but we spare few thoughts for the Afghans. We should. Killing them in numbers far higher than those who died in the World Trade Centre will have two results: no peace and reconciliation; a tragic breeding ground for more hostility and hatred of the fair-skinned invaders. That means the Taliban will not be short or recruits to drive these latest marauders out, just have done to all the others in the past.
It is time to come home from Afghanistan and Iraq and then at least one side will have stopped killing.
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