Derrick Crowe continues to hammer the point home. The war in Afghanistan has increasingly relied more and more on long distance weapons, ie; drones, missles and assorted airstrikes. These tactics will not win the population over for the all too important reason that in kills them. And it kills them at a higher rate than the intended targets.
BBC reports that U.S. forces piloting helicopters killed three children last night in the Arghandab district of Afghanistan. Absolutely heartbreaking.
At this point, if you can read a chart, you should be able to determine that even if troops on the ground are added, they still fail to decrease civilian casualities. These are not just casualities of war in general but specific deaths due to our methods and tactics.
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