Winning Hearts and Minds.......

......When They're Dead Meat

ExterminateTheBrutes
StoneAgeBombadiersVille

According to Human Rights Watch, last week's bombing of Afghani civilians by NATO was not a one-off thing:

Human Rights Watch said NATO has relied extensively on the use of aircraft to attack insurgent positions, adding that in June 2006, U.S. Central Command reported 340 air strikes in Afghanistan, double the 160 strikes carried out in Iraq in the same month.

"NATO should reconsider the use of highly destructive but hard-to-target weaponry in areas where there is a clear risk of considerable civilian casualties," (HWO's Sam) Zarifi said, referring to bombs and missiles launched by airplanes that can easily miss their target."


The thing about hearts and minds though is this.....for every dead one an occupying force takes control of for no good reason at all they also leave behind scores and scores of living ones that will hate your guts for a very, very long time.

I mean, have the NATO/US commanders already forgotten how they recruited all those Mujahideen warriors when the Russians rolled into Kabul a generation ago?


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