As you probably well know Prax, collateral damage came into play in WWI......it will not change.....
Yes, it's been a part of war for some time now..... however a select few in the world tend to use the Collateral Card way too much to excuse their own actions. While cases where civilians are killed or wounded at the hands of Canadians, investigations are made and the final conclusions are made public..... and there are very few of these situations occuring. The US goes along and levels an entire village for one or two targets, and somehow there's justification for this sort of act? There are no followup reports or investigations, no details as to why something went wrong or why who and how many got killed..... nothing..... nothing is ever done, and the cycle continues..... Just about every day that goes by there is some kind of report of the US killing civilians or allies.... if it's not Afghanistan, it's Pakistan..... if it's not Pakistan it's Iraq. So many people are killed at the hands of the US, and so little is done to figure out why or how to reduce the amount of deaths..... and it just keeps on going.
Yesterday in the news it was Afgan police being killed by the US..... today it was children in a school in Pakistan..... what's it going to be tomorrow?
And the worst part of this whole situation is that the US is spreading their corrupt, two-faced ways accross borders. They made an agreement with Pakistan a while back not to cross their borders and bomb stuff on their side...... and yet they're doing just that.
Now because of these actions and their limited intelligence in a country they are no occupying, they have killed more civilians.... children in a school for that matter.
Now besides the whole fact that they're continually compromising Pakistan's sovereignty (An ally too by the way) for their own ends.... they are now killing Pakistans' civilians/children through their dumbass military tactics which have ended up probably killing more civilians then they have terrorists overall.
Just because a war may include collateral from time to time, doesn't mean you don't try and reduce the amount as much as you can. Just because you're
"At War" doesn't give you a green light to blow away everything in your path and then brush the dead civilians off like just it's another day at the office.
There is no excuse, period. If the US wanted someone in Pakistan, then you go as Pakistan to get them for you. Then if something screws up and civilians die, it's on their hands. And before people come on here and snicker that they're not doing anything..... that's a half truth.
Yes, Pakistan did very little for years now.... under the rule of Dictator Mushbrains.... whom Bush dished loads of money to to do nothing. Now the Pakistan Army is putting the boots to those in the tribal region and doing what they should have been doing years ago...... but now the US is crossing their borders and blowing sh*t up as they please like they own the place, now making it more difficult for Pakistan to do what they should be doing.
Now Pakistan has to deal with the Taliban in the tribal areas, they have to deal with their own citizens and protecting them, and on top of all that, they have to now face one of their allies taking pot shots in their own country and killing their own civilians..... thereby making the whole situation more difficult for them.
If the US keeps this up, Pakistan will have no other choice but to respond in an equal fashion...... and guess what? NATO forces will then have to deal with the Taliban crossing the borders, attacks already within Afghanistan, Pakistan no longer co-operating, and plus Pakistan deciding to shoot back at us..... who knows? Maybe they'll go so far as to crossing Afghanistan's borders.
No matter how you look at this situation, the US's actions of crossing Pakistans borders and blowing them up clearly isn't going to make anything easier for anybody.
No good will come of this.
