Opinion | Kabul drone strike whitewash shows it’s business as usual for the US under Joe Biden
- With the August drone strike on his executive resume, the American president has continued his predecessors’ bloody procession of civilian casualties caused by the US
- This shows the US will be despised for years to come and that US tax dollars will keep funding military escapades during Biden’s term in the Oval Office
Seven children died as a result of the strike. However, according to the Air Force’s inspector general Lieutenant General Sami D. Said, children can be difficult to spot to the drone operators stationed in Nevada, Virginia or wherever their headquarters happens to be.
Some assumptions were made, Said continued, including the tracking of a white Toyota Corolla through Kabul. The term for such irresponsibility is usually known as “confirmation bias”.
Furthermore, as Said pointed out in that vague military-speak vocabulary that often says nothing, “That assessment was primarily driven by interpretation. Regrettably, the interpretational assessment was inaccurate.”
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US retaliates for Kabul airport attack with drone strikes on Afghan capital and border region
In a New York Times article about the results of the investigation, the reporters go out of their way to make this statement: “The military makes an effort to avoid civilian casualties.”