The story is about a vehicle with three men in it that was fired on by a helicopter, killing two of them and seriously wounding the third. The Pentagon had said that the vehicle was attacked after ignoring warning shots, but NPR has evidence that there was not enough time between the warning and the attack for the vehicle to turn around, and that the men in the vehicle were farmers.
NPR is not claiming that there was deliberate wrongdoing. This sounds to me like the sort of accident that can happen during the confusion of battle.
I recommend everyone watch Generation Kill. It’s inspired by true events, and it’s reasonably accurate as it’s following a unit with an embedded reporter. Sometimes shit just happens. Sometimes that shit is avoidable and sometimes it’s just an accident and unavoidable and they did everything right. Sometimes people just want to do bad shit because they’re assholes or they were trained to hate the enemy and make the mistake of thinking all the people in the region are the enemy.
War fucking sucks, and people should see the worst of it so they don’t beg for it. Most people never see the reality of war and are protected from it, with content warnings and other things. I’m of the opinion that, in order to vote, you should have to see the worst things that happen in war.
The story is about a vehicle with three men in it that was fired on by a helicopter, killing two of them and seriously wounding the third. The Pentagon had said that the vehicle was attacked after ignoring warning shots, but NPR has evidence that there was not enough time between the warning and the attack for the vehicle to turn around, and that the men in the vehicle were farmers.
NPR is not claiming that there was deliberate wrongdoing. This sounds to me like the sort of accident that can happen during the confusion of battle.
I recommend everyone watch Generation Kill. It’s inspired by true events, and it’s reasonably accurate as it’s following a unit with an embedded reporter. Sometimes shit just happens. Sometimes that shit is avoidable and sometimes it’s just an accident and unavoidable and they did everything right. Sometimes people just want to do bad shit because they’re assholes or they were trained to hate the enemy and make the mistake of thinking all the people in the region are the enemy.
War fucking sucks, and people should see the worst of it so they don’t beg for it. Most people never see the reality of war and are protected from it, with content warnings and other things. I’m of the opinion that, in order to vote, you should have to see the worst things that happen in war.