Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Airstrike in Afgan kills 27 Civilians

Background: Over this past weekend NATO authorized an unjustifiable air strike that lead the the death of 27 civilian. NATO got what was supposed to be reliable Intel from an Afghan saying that there would be many Taliban leaders traveling to a destination in 3 buses. So NATO and the American commander thought this would be a perfect opportunity to take out some strong leaders. So they see on there satellites that there are 3 buses traveling, and this matched there Intel. So planes fired at the buses and took them out, when they sent people into inspect the damage, they found innocent civilians and among them four women and children. NATO apologized Monday saying the attacks were "Unjustifiable". This is the third time this has happened in Afghanistan since starting there major offensive there.

Opinion: First off, i don't understand where and who you would get reliable Intel from in of all places Afghanistan. If we don't even know who we are shooting at sometimes, why should we trust a person that says do this because i heard this was going to happen. It would be hard for me to trust any people over there besides the Americans and Afghanistan officials. Otherwise we shouldn't be relying on street Intel, and if you knew the buses where traveling somewhere, why didn't we just spy on them with the same satellites we used to locate the buses? We should have just followed them and see what happened, because if we do find out they are Taliban leaders, we could have had our jets already in the air when they find out more Intel, and still be there to strike within a minute. Plus its not like the leaders would have anywhere to hide with the kind of weapon technology America has. I think if the NATO commanders would have been a little more patient, this incident would have never happened.

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