Those bigger issues are: What is U.S. strategy in Afghanistan & region? How might conflict be demilitarized? Can any deal be cut w/ Taliban?
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Nor is the smaller question of whether Kunduz
#MSF hospital air strike is a war crime emblematic or representative of these larger issues. -
The legality of the airstrike on the
#MSF hospital should of course be rigorously investigated by US military & an independent body, BUT… -
…it helps no one, certainly not Afghan civilians, to pretend an actual war crime indictment or conviction stands a snowball's chance in hell
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@MSF hospital was a war crime should not serve to sanitize or absolve the rest of the war. -
"Friendly fire" deaths are not an aberration but a routine part of war, and have been for a long time, from Stonewall Jackson and earlier.
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"Friendly Fire and the Limits of the Military Justice System" by Lt. Col (ret) Michael J. Davidson, U.S. Army: https://www.usnwc.edu/getattachment/438724bd-7da8-43b7-9b47-dddad770c3c4/Friendly-Fire-and-the-Limits-of-the-Military-Justi …
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@ChMadar biggest issue for me is why the debate AT ALL? It WAS a war crime. They bombed a hospital. They KNEW it was a hospital. -
@Grungeholio It's certainly an atrocity, but the laws of armed conflict do in fact authorize a lot of "collateral damage". I say that not… -
@Grungeholio …to justify or rationalize this horrible act, but to describe reality of the LOAC, which are often not on side of civilians. -
@ChMadar I consider it a waste of time talking about the legalities because no US/NATO Military officer will be held responsible.
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