— Barack Obama
[I]mages of prisoner maltreatment at Abu Ghraib still serve as recruiting tools for al-Qaeda. [E]ach civilian casualty for which we are even remotely responsible sets back our efforts to gain the confidence of the Afghan people . . .
— Mike Mullen, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
Yes, well, ‘even remotely responsible’ doesn’t square with U.S. shrapnel from a U.S. bomb dropped by the U.S. directly implanting itself in a child’s face 7000 miles away from the U.S. That said, here are the results of the May 4-5 U.S. bombardment and killing of at least 147 civilians in Farah, Afghanistan. Nothing has changed post-Bush, so now I bring you, because the mainstream media refuses to, Obama’s latest “recruiting tools for al-Queda”:
Humble graves in the impoverished villages of our enemies:
The economic backbone of our adversaries:
Note that the U.S. says only the following can be civilians:
These dudes, on the other hand, because they’re adult males, they just hafta be terrorists:
He’s got ‘that look’, doesn’t he?
The U.S. has also ordered its obedient Pakistan army to do similar to Pakistani civilians:
The Pakistani army’s assault against Islamic militants in Buner, in northwest Pakistan, is flattening villages, killing civilians and sending thousands of farmers and villagers fleeing from their homes
This is U.S. imperialism. Are you so frightened by the ‘Taliban gonna take over Pakistan!’ myth or so in Obama love that you’re okay with this? Is it worth it, as Madeleine Albright would say?
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