Why Do They Hate Us?
Here’s at least 50 good reasons
Initially “US-led coalition forces denied killing any civilians” in Thursday’s airstrike.
The next day they thought there might be five.
An Afghan minister who visited the area put the civilian death toll at 90, a human rights group at the scene estimated it at 78 and the Interior Ministry reported 76 noncombatants dead, including 50 children.The attacks sparked angry protests on Saturday from locals, who set fire to a police vehicle and waved banners reading “Death to America”.
A school principal and police official said Afghan soldiers tried to hand out food and clothes Saturday in Azizabad — the village where the U.S.-Afghan operation took place Thursday. But villagers started throwing stones at the soldiers, who then fired on the Afghans and wounded up to eight.
The United States expressed regret, but somehow I imagine that the parents of those kids ain’t buying it – I wouldn’t, and, just like the guy who saw his children’s brains splattered all over the back window of they taxi they were riding in, my hate would be deep.
Here’s a fairly sobering stat from the Times coverage of the above: “Almost 700 civilians were killed in the first six months of this year, 255 of them by Afghan government and international troops, and the rest by Taleban militants, according to the UN. ”
More that 1/3 of the civilian deaths were caused by the “good” guys.