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The Taliban likes to hide behind civilians when they are doing their dirty work. The biggest reason is to make us look bad; if we have to level a village to get them we look like the bad guys. To say the US never made a mistake over there would be naive; innocent people have died in some cases by US troops. But it wasn't done on purpose (in the rare case it was done on purpose the troops responsible were court-martialed) and the vast majority of civilians who die are killed by the other side. Rules of engagement make it much harder for troops because the enemy may know what the rules are and they'll exploit them since they don't have to follow them. Regardless of when and where, combat isn't going to be neat and friendly.

stvee101

Vast majority of civilians are killed by US whether it be deliberate or because of crap intelligence or simply a mistake though its not given enough attention in the media while Taliban who kill civilians makes headlines every where. Taliban never kill civilians deliberately. They only kill those who are working withforeign forcesor some civilians who might die when a convoy is attacked in populated area. Taliban are defending Afghanistan and its people and they have massive support whether you want to admit it or not or whether its reported in western media or not.

Just few weeks back 60 civilians were killed in a number of drone attacks in a single day in Pakistan.Also in many occasions when a drone attacks and people around the villages come to help those injured people, another drone attack kills those people as well! i mean wtf is that man? and you might have also noticed in these attacks always 'suspected terrorists' die, and they are almost always innocent people!

but then who really cares if 60 or 100 or 100,000 people die in Afghanistan and Pakistan or Iraq?

:lol:

And then you go on to contradict yourself in the very next sentence.

I'm British and my support is quickly wavering for this seemingly un-winnable war,but honestly,its so easy for some people to sit at their keyboards and criticize the US military.Sure they've made mistakes and are by no means perfect,but do you have any idea how hard it is to fight against such a ruthless and cunning enemy as the taliban? An enemy who knows the land like the back of their hand and aren't above using civilians and populated urban ares as "cover".

Now, I didn't read the entire article, but what I did read made it sound like the village had been overrun by the Taliban and infested with explosives and traps before the US forces rolled in. And that, after the destruction, efforts were underway to rebuild the village.

The article seems awfully skewed... and frankly, so does your thread.