If this story pans out, we now have our own generation's My Lai Massacre, although thankfully on a far smaller scale. As if we needed another one. It speaks to the absolute brutality of war and the difference between war games and the real thing.
In the warmongers' dreams, wars are clean events, full of "surgical strikes" and "smart bombs." In the real world, wars remain dirty affairs, and guerilla wars even more so, with every stranger a potential enemy. Perhaps that's why wiser leaders have eschewed unprovoked and needless wars.
Now we have this horrific act, that will only increase world-wide condemnation of the United States. If you ever wanted to drive people into a jihadist movement, you couldn't create better arguments than photos or stories of US soldiers killing civilians.
I'm so pissed off right now I'm starting to fly in several directions.
The Post today has a map of the killings, but I didn't find it online. Check the print edition.
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