.ZeeshanAleem: The story of that drone strike, and the absence of accountability for those who took the lives of close to a dozen civilians that day, powerfully distills why the U.S.’s decades-long intervention in Afghanistan was so brutal and unjust.
While the military has since admitted that the strike was a mistake, its assessment of what happened was that the error was anone. “What we saw here was a breakdown in process, and execution in procedural events, not the result of negligence, not the result of misconduct, not the result of poor leadership,” John Kirby, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, said on Monday. “So I do not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the Aug. 29 airstrike.
The U.S. military rarely ends up sanctioning its personnel for causing civilian deaths, which is why its decision not to penalize anyone is not a surprise. But even if we grant that the U.S. military's assessment is defensible in a narrow sense — that this was a mistake not born of malice or extraordinary negligence but"earnest" misjudgment — it's still damning. Had the U.S.
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