I fear that this incident might be used by the American “kill teams” and CIA drone operators to commit those “isolated” incidents yet again that have resulted in deliberate killing of civilians and even severing their body parts as trophies, while the likes of Fox News and NYT will bombard the senses of the people with the stories of this Taliban ”atrocity” , the troops in Afghanistan will use this moment as a free pass to commit murder as a revenge for their downed comrades, knowing every well that the US media will mute any voice of protest from the human rights organisations or usual Karzai babbling after the NATO strikes on civilians.
It pains me to see that the US military command and the administration is so generous in condemning the likes of Gadafi and Bashar Al Asad for their human rights violations and targeted killing of civilians but when its own troops are found again and again since the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq to this day
committing murder & celebrating it openly with pictures and videos of themselves killing Iraqis and Afghans and I am not even talking about collateral damage (through artillery or air strikes but targeted & deliberate killing of civilians).
While the decent Americans gasp with disbelief and voice their “concern” over such incidents but when American forces suffer any casualties in double figures such sentiments are harshly muted out by the NeoCons and their media outlets.
I wont be surprised if very soon we don’t see yet another revenge attack by the “rouge” soldiers which I think work under the instructions and approval of the high command because there is a pattern and consistency suggesting some policy that includes killing civilians because might is right and no other nation in the world dares to question the American Empire.
Looks like the Taliban responded in kind to the Americans, because on one hand Americans are going through different channels opening a dialog with the Taliban to ensure stability and some workable solution after their departure but on the other hand their covert operations by the military and CIA are intensified to kill as many Taliban as they can so as to have a weaker and subdued opponents then the parlays reach the final stage.
I am sure that the stories that have come out are as they say, tip of the iceberg, there might be unexplained mass graves found later on which might tell stories of the perpetrators, the truth eventually comes out.
Lastly , to be fair, I will like to pay respect to the dead soldiers, they died for the cause of their country and the oath they took and they believed in what they were doing in that part of the word was right. And I wish that their deaths are not marred by the actions of their comrades that lack professionalism and look more like rouges and undisciplined militia rather than a disciplined army.
