U.S. Inflicts ‘Simply Massive’ Collateral Damage on Afghans: Le Quotidien d’Oran of Algeria
It’s not a new phenomenon: Innocent people, intentionally or not harboring terrorists – are killed in a U.S.-led attack. Continuing with our multi-pronged coverage of the Af-Pak sitiation, this editorial from Algeria’s Le Quotidien d’Oran makes it clear once again that such events remain detrimental to winning hearts and minds in the Muslim world.
For Le Quotidien d’Oran, K. Selim writes in part:
“To speak of a ‘blunder’ or ‘collateral damage’ is to decide to think little of Afghan lives and above all use a lexicon that erases the responsibility of the Western military. … Some in the West say: the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan is part of the problem, not the solution. As in all tragedies, this idea will not take hold until after the people have paid in blood.”
By K. Selim
Translated By L. McKenzie Zeiss
May 9, 2009
Algeria – Le Quotidien d’Oran – Home Page (French)
At the very moment that Barack Obama met with presidents Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan to coordinate the war against the Taliban in both of their nations, an American raid described as a “blunder,” resulted in at least a hundred civilian deaths in eastern Afghanistan. The two villages that were bombed have drawn up a list of 147 people killed.
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2 Responses to “U.S. Inflicts ‘Simply Massive’ Collateral Damage on Afghans: Le Quotidien d’Oran of Algeria”
There is positively no reason to be involved in AF/Pak. We are only there because the Brits still want India and powerful men in the US have strong alliances to the crown…even still. Unlike India, the US must not have won its freedom from Britain “officially” meanwhile remaining loyal to the crown.
Yes, our presence there is directly related to people there being pissed off about it, thereby fighting about it, thereby burning a young child like the on in the picture. US in places where it has no business always results in pictures like the one above.
I don't know about the underlying reasons for our being there Sil, but AF/Pak seems to have a lot more quagmire potential than Iraq did. I don't think Obama has articulated the needs and plans for the conflict very well, not that most in the US seems to care.
The relative silence coming from the left about collateral damage now that Obama's in charge seems to confirm what I've always believed, namely that both the GOP and Democrats are OK with dead civilians as long as they're the ones doing the killing.