Debate over whether the U.S. airstrike on an Afghan #MSF hospital http://aje.io/qjpn is a war crime shouldn't occlude bigger issues here
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Replying to @ChaseMadar
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.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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The legality of the airstrike on the
#MSF hospital should of course be rigorously investigated by US military & an independent body, BUT…1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
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…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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And a finding that US airstrike on the Kunduz
@MSF hospital was a war crime should not serve to sanitize or absolve the rest of the war.1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes -
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"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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