Amnesty International’s poor timing

The Associated Press reports that Amnesty International, that watchdog group which ignores every single atrocity on the planet that doesn’t involve US troops somehow, filed a report with NATO in regards to a few civilian deaths in Afghanistan which, of course, involved US troops;

A toughly-worded report by the group focused on 10 incidents between 2009 and 2013 that it said saw 140 civilians killed during U.S. military operations. Amnesty said the vast majority of family members it interviewed said they had never been interviewed by U.S. military investigators.

Most of the incidents involved airstrikes and night raids carried out by U.S. forces. Both tactics have sparked heated criticism from Afghan civilians and the government who say the U.S. doesn’t take enough care to prevent civilian deaths.

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However, the U.N. found that Taliban fighters and other militants have been responsible for the majority of the civilian killings. Insurgents were responsible for 74 percent of the casualties, the U.N. said, while pro-government forces were responsible for 9 percent, government forces 8 percent and foreign troops just 1 percent. The rest could not be attributed to any group.

These are the people that we’re trying to appease when our Defense Department writes a useless set of rules of engagement. This weekend, we get news from Iraq that real terrorists are really terrorizing people – you know things like burying people alive, raping and beheading children, filling mass graves. There’s a picture of someone’s child triumphantly holding up a severed head of his father’s enemy making the rounds today, for Pete’s sake.

But, see Amnesty International would have no impact if they filed reports about that kinds of stuff. So they bully our politicians with crap like this report – focusing on one percent of the casualties instead of the atrocities committed by the enemies of Peace.

Category: Dumbass Bullshit, Terror War