Doctors Without Borders closes Afghan hospital, says U.S. may have committed war crime

fair enough

 

All of this. And also, what Stoney said. Quite the fuck-up, and someone will be in deep shit.

 

I wonder how President Trump would deal with it.

 

He'd say it's their own fault for living in a war zone.

 

Are you implying that or inferring it?

 

I think I stumped him there.

 

Infer: to form (an opinion) from evidence: to reach (a conclusion) based upon known facts.

To hint or suggest (something)


http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infer

 

Stylebook much? ... And that second definition is the backpedal default.

 

Now it can be implied that you're really reaching.

 

The US military's story is already changing.

They initially said that the airstrikes were in defense of US troops in the area.

In a briefing this morning, the Pentagon now admits that was untrue, and says the airstrikes were called in by Afghan forces, who said they were under fire.

Sounds to me like our Afghan allies lied to us. We struck a hospital as a result, and then lied about it.

 

The whole story makes me pretty sick to my stomach. And if there were suspected Taliban fighters in that hospital, there should have been boots on the ground to take them out and (hopefully) minimize casualties. You don't just blow up a hospital because some of the people being treated there are the enemy. That's not how we are supposed to operate.

And if our Afghan allies lied to us, we should hang them out to dry instead of covering their asses.

 

Beyond it not being "how we operate", it's flat out illegal (ie. a war crime) to do so. This wasn't a hospital controlled by our enemies or the Afghani govt. Instead it was one run by a neutral humanitarian organization, which means its supposed to be off limits and untouchable to war combatants. They provide their coordinates to us, and then we're supposed to make sure we don't bomb those coordinates.

There's really no conceivable excuse here. Even if it was shown the Taliban had taken the building and was using patients as human shields, you still don't bomb the Doctors Without Borders hospital. Find another way.