I want some of what the general is smoking, if he really believes that. These things do happen and they are understandable --- wasn't Bruce talking about something like this once? But it's also a symptom of what the heck are we doing there. with a bunch of scared kids with guns who dont speak the language, don't know how things are done and cant tell friend from foe. Of course people get shot.
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gen. McChrystal was doing a Q&A with troops in Afghanistan a couple > weeks ago discussing the problems with escalation of force (where our > troops feel in danger at a checkpoint or something and end up firing > on a vehicle) and flat out said that thus far there didn't seem to > have been a single situation where an escalation of force incident > happened and it turned out that the people in the vehicles that were > fired on were actually combatants. To their credit, they are trying > to figure out how to reduce these incidents, hopefully to the point of > eliminating them. But as long as our soldiers are being attacked, they > are going to be extra suspicious of everyone else and the human > instinct is to err on the side of staying alive, sometimes at the > expense of other people staying alive. > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I really hope this isn't true. fuck..... >> >> >> On Apr 5, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >> >>> >>> I haven't had time to validate it's authenticity, but here's a video from >>> one of our gunships taking out iraqi's that were mistaken for >>> combatants...two of them were reporters for Reuters. >>> >>> >>> http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/04/05/they-hate-us-for-our-freedoms/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:315088 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
