Maybe I should’ve held onto my Sunday blog posting about coalition forces killing Afghan civilians for a few days. If I had: I could’ve pointed this out as well.
So, fresh off a series of airstrikes that killed scores of civilians last week, fresh off promises of wholesale changes to policies to reduce civilian casualties in the future and, as the article points out: just one day after the US paid off the families of all those civilians that the Marines slaughtered in March… 21 more.
I hope whoever was responsible for paying them off didn’t put his checkbook away, because the indiscriminate killing of dozens of innocent villagers continues unabated.
Oh, and just in case you were keeping score: US military spokesman Major William Mitchell once again insisted that they didn’t know anything about having killed any civilians. I guess they’re always the last to know.