Hearts & Minds

.. or why the "terraists" are smarter than the entire American military..

JABAR, Afghanistan - A NATO airstrike destroyed a mud brick home, killing four generations of an Afghan family — nine people in all — during a firefight between Western troops and militants, Afghan officials and relatives said Monday.

Militants late Sunday fired on a NATO base in Kapisa province, just north of Kabul. When fighter aircraft returned fire they hit a civilian home, killing five adults and four children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years, said Gulam Nabi, 51, a relative of the victims.

Maj. William Mitchell, a U.S. military spokesman, said officials were looking into the incident. The NATO base in Kapisa is staffed by U.S. forces and sits some 50 miles northeast of Kabul, the capital.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene said a large mud home in a compound of five buildings was destroyed, leaving only exploded bits of mud.

Among those killed were Gulam Nabi's parents, his sister, his nephew, and four of the extended family's youngest children.

The news of the airstrike came one day after wounded Afghans and witnesses said U.S. Marines fired on civilian cars and pedestrians after a frenzied escape from a suicide bomb and gunfire attack in eastern Afghanistan. The violence sparked angry anti-U.S. demonstrations by hundreds of Afghan men.

I like how they call it "NATO" as if there is some coalition that's bombing the fuck out of everything in Afghanistan.. instead of just the Americans.

The interesting thing though is the tactics. The "terraists" know they can't really go up against the Americans and "win", so they lob some 'nades to get the American's interest, then run back to where a bunch of civilians (women and kids) are, and then wait for the Americans to bomb the fuck out of everything..

The problem with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is that you can't win them by killing some people. Either you have to kill everybody and leave the place an irradiated glass parking lot, or just get the fuck out. Expecting to get a bunch of Islamic freaks on your side is just stupid.

And we're paying trillions for this? God..