KILLING OF CIVILIANS HALLMARK OF US WARS: From the beginning, there seemed to be something wrong with the US drone strike on August 29 in Kabul. Ten people were obliterated, mostly from the same family, including seven little children. The media was sceptical from the beginning, especially considering that the driver of the targeted car was a longtime employee at an US humanitarian organisation. After saying for days that he was a Daesh extremist, the US has finally admitted the strike was ‘a tragic mistake’. So often in America’s non-stop wars in the greater Middle East, civilians have been cut down due to bad decisions based on unacceptably poor intelligence. Given all this, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the US intel agencies failed to predict just how soon their Afghan government allies would collapse in the face of the Taliban insurgency. [COMMENT BY: Omar Shariff, International Editor]
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