Ganoncrotch said:
Yeah pretty much this sort of "mistake" is going to be used as a PR tool by tools to paint the US as a villain when something like this happens, of course even reading the linked article and you'll see that "Many Isil fighters are still holed up in the city, and are preventing thousands of civilians from leaving, effectively using them as human shields. " So yeah... Sure the US did kill civilians, but they're civilians who are being held there by terrorists and used as human shields, to put all the blame of this on the US forces is really just weak minded. If you have terrorists who hold these children hostages to use them as shields... how do you try to paint them as the good guys here doing the right things? |
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People need to wake up and realize this is what War - real war between two territory-holding entities - looks like. I know we haven't had one in a while folks, but its not hard to do the research and refresh your memory. They don't say war is hell for no reason. Mistakes will be made, civilian casualties will occur. And it is always tragic.
But ISIL FORCING civilians to stay in that village rather than protecting their retreat to a more secure location betrays their true colors. The people of their "state" are cattle to them, nothing more. I mean, shoot even Stalin didn't do that to my knowledge, that's next level crappiness.
