A good read from the AP that doesn’t for once blame unmanned drones for all the death and carnage in Afghanistan.
I found this part most interesting:
A survey released this week found that 42 percent of the 1,534 Afghan respondents now blame the violence on the Taliban — up from 27 percent a year ago. Seventeen percent blame the U.S., NATO or the Afghan security forces, down from 36 percent a year ago. But 66 percent said airstrikes by the U.S. and international forces were unacceptable because they endangered too many innocent civilians, even though they might help defeat militants.
Hmm, the numbers speak.