{"id":22369,"date":"2011-02-22T17:18:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T21:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22369"},"modified":"2011-02-22T19:09:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T23:09:17","slug":"your-a-killer-of-women-and-children-but-we-care-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22369","title":{"rendered":"You’re a killer of women and children, but we care about you."},"content":{"rendered":"

Should have known this was coming since I first read about it. <\/a><\/p>\n

\nThe provincial governor of Kunar province, Fazlullah Wahidi, told AFP that military operations and airstrikes have killed 63 people in the past week, alleging most were civilians including 20 women and three elderly men.<\/p>\n

He said they were killed mostly in air raids by NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) against suspected rebels in Kunar.<\/p>\n

“In total 63 people have died,” he said, adding that at least 20 of the civilians killed were women, 27 were males – the youngest just seven – and three were elderly men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However they leave out minor details like these<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another patient there, Hamidullah, 21, who like many Afghans uses only one name, described an air attack and subsequent occupation of his village, Haigal, by Afghan Army soldiers over the last three days and said that 26 of his family members were killed or wounded. He conceded that the area had been used to launch attacks on NATO convoys.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not sad that I lost my family members,\u201d he said. \u201cThey died for God, and I am also willing to die. If the infidels kill me, then it is something that God wishes. These people will, I am sure, God willing, be defeated. I hope God destroys Americans.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or this<\/p>\n

The NATO account said the assault began around 7 p.m. Thursday and lasted for five hours. The target was Taliban fighters who were gathering on a hillside, said Rear Adm. Gregory J. Smith, the strategic communications chief. After reviewing footage of the assault and intelligence, he said that he saw no sign that civilians or civilian houses were attacked, but that it was not possible to rule it out entirely.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But in response Rethink Afghanistan is accusing the ISF of blaming the “victims” of these attacks.<\/a\n\nBut the comment on Facebook that started this post was this to my reply that there is a difference cultures between the West and Middle East.\n\n\n\n\n

\nLet me tell you something else I understand about human psychology. I get, Warren, that you can’t shoot people if you actually think they are like you. I get that you have to make them less than yourself in order to harm them. I get that… you cannot continue to serve unless you continue to “otherize” your enemies.
\nI know you are a medic. So was my father. But you are still part of the war machine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yea, and who is the one who is generalizing now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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