Wednesday, July 07, 2010

D'oh

The aim is to win over the population by limiting Afghan casualties while securing new areas, eventually turning control over to local army and police and allowing foreign troops to withdraw.

[...]

NATO mistakenly killed five of its Afghan army allies in an airstrike Wednesday while they were attacking insurgents in the country's east, officials said.

  Yahoo

That can't help.

"This is not the first time such an incident has happened, but we wish that at least this would be the last one," [Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir] Azimi said.

Pipes and dreams, pal. Pipes and dreams. You know what they say about wishing: "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." Or as I heard an old ex-con say: "Wish in one hand and shit in the other; see which fills up first."

Another NATO airstrike on Tuesday in Paktika province killed several suspected insurgents [when] coalition aircraft fired a precision-guided munition to repel militants [...] near an unmarked mosque in Yahya Khel district. Windows of the mosque were broken in the fighting.

That can't help, either.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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