Should We Allow NATO Free Rein to Attack and Kill People?
The airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers is just the latest in a series of mistakes that raise doubts about NATO’s credibility
By PRATAP CHATTERJEE
Commondreams.org
Why did NATO forces kill two dozen Pakistani soldiers at a border post in the Mohmand region, some 300 yards across the frontier from Afghanistan early on Saturday morning? The US military claims the attack was in response to hostile fire, and the Pakistanis are demanding proof of that.
There is a very simple explanation of what happened: the US military makes deadly mistakes all the time, and for all its technological wizardry and tremendous firepower, it has very little intelligence on the ground.
“There are many questions that need to be answered,” an editorial in the New York Times pronounced:
“Who first fired on the American-Afghan force? Pakistan’s army is far too cozy with the Taliban. Were fighters sheltering near the Pakistani outposts? What about Pakistan’s claim that the NATO strikes continued for two hours even after Pakistan alerted allied officials? What needs to be done differently going forward?”
In New York and Washington, this is standard fare. We can’t trust the Pakistanis, they are with the terrorists.
But can we trust NATO or the US military? There are numerous examples of firing on civilians, killing children and even deliberately targeting and assassinating individuals who turn out not to have been the people they were claimed to be. And that is in Afghanistan, a country where the US has easy access..... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/12/02/should-we-allow-nato-free-rein-to-attack-and-kill-people/
2 comments:
unang naging imperyalistang kapangyarihan ang kalbong agila sa paglusob nila at pagtalo natin sa digmaang pilipino-amerikano (1899-1914). siguro sasabay ang paggapi dito sa dmnyo nang pamahalaan ng estados unidos sa paggising ng mga pilipino at iba pang mamamayan ng mundo sa katotohanang hindi tupang heneral ang bansang ito kundi buwayang.leon at sating rolled into one. ugh.
"Those are just two of the better documented examples: In February 2010 NATO admitted killing 12 civilians in Helmand. The following day it admitted to killing five civilians in Zhari district of Kandahar. Just last week, it admitted killing seven civilians, most of them children, in the same district of Kandahar.
"In Pakistan, the US record is even murkier. I work at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism where we have documented the killing of more than 175 children and as many as 600 other civilians inside Pakistan by the CIA."
sana nga ay magising na ang mga zombies na mamamayan ng mundo. ang mga namumuno ng maraming bansang nasa ilalim ng kalbong agila ay mga kakuntsaba sa pagtatakip ng totoong kasamaan nito.
Post a Comment