Sunday, December 19, 2021

A report that came out today in the New York Times confirms that there is nothing exaggerated about the claims made in My Stretch of Texas Ground about how horrifically the post-9/11 wars were fought. And it's ironic because the New York Times usually defends U.S. government claims and actions.

The gist of it is that the new way that the U.S. fights its wars, which is to do it almost entirely from the air, kills a lot of innocents. I consider this a vindication of My Stretch of Texas Ground. "The Times reported that a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, which U.S. officials said had destroyed a vehicle laden with bombs, had instead killed 10 members of a family. Last month, The Times reported that dozens of civilians were killed in a 2019 bombing in Baghuz, Syria that the military had hidden from public view. Now, a Times investigation has found that these were not outliers but rather the regular casualties of a transformed way of war gone wrong."




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