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 In this tit-for-tat war, America has apparently responded to the deaths of our 13 by allegedly killing nine of theirs, including children.  The young soldiers on the ground, the living and the dead, would not have wanted more young people killed in their names, I am sure of that.  Especially while so many of them are still parked over there, waiting to be airlifted out themselves...

A summary of recent developments as Afghanistan enters the penultimate day of the 20-year presence of foreign troops in the country.

A US drone strike on a vehicle in a Kabul neighbourhood has killed nine people, including, allegedly, a number of children, according to local reports. This figure has not been confirmed. US Central Command has said it is assessing the possibility of civilian casualties. It reported the vehicle was carrying explosives and suicide bombers who were set to target Kabul airport imminently.

 

That was capitulating to the desire for ... revenge. Optics, baby. Trying to pretend the US military still looks good, no matter the truth.  That's play acting = political pundit soldiers, who don't have to smell bloody death, or clean up the scene...

The old men running this war -- and their heirs -- don't understand New America yet.  We don't abide killing children period, there or here.  Guns, and weapons and force, have taken enough of our young people's treasure, and youth.

If the oldsters in Washington, and in the military, think they will continue getting away with this -- with or without the media's complicity -- they can't see very far down the road at all.  What are the Congresspeople thinking, do you think?  Are they listening to their voters and constituents this Labor Day weekend?  Do they smell the power shift in the air, the anger that the growing numbers of America's younger folk think of leadership?

(I'm not talking the comfortably ensconced -- those who, with parental help, have ... established themselves, and built safe and secure nests, financially and otherswise.  They are the Heirs Apparent, expecting to inherit the boomer legacy, and continued accumulated finances.  Things are changing though... and truth be told?  They can be counted in with their parental generation -- the numbers of New America make their situations a minority, indeed. 

ADDED:  It doesn't help when your Press Sec. comes across as clueless either, in a trying-to-be-macho way. (very Hillary) It makes you seem out of touch.  You should be ... exhausted, like the parents of the dead are.  Not resting until everyone is out. Not play acting at being tough when you have no idea in the world what the word means...

Vivian Salama@vmsalama

Aug 27 @presssec, responding to a question on how the President intends to retaliate against the perpetrators of yesterday's Kabul attack: "I think he made clear yesterday that he does not want them to live on the earth anymore."

 

Tbat's not gonna win you any Catholic/Christian votes, Joe, and down the road, you are gonna need those. We're still culturally -- a big-part of it -- a Christian land. Don't forget that when counting up identity groups, black and white.  

 

John McCain is dead. You're no John McCain, Joe.  Stop this nonsense.  I don't care who is feeding you what, but for God's sake listen to the MAJORITY of the quiet Americans, the women, the young, the struggling, the ones who don't like unconstrained, untargeted use of force for its own sake, that takes the lives of innocents.  You see, too many of us today identify with the collateral damage, Joe, we have been hurt by the loud-talking bigs who throw their weight around, break things, and want others to clean up their messes.  If we killed kids, intentionally or not, stumbling out the door...

 

Black and white, Joe.  Don't forget who got you there... it wasn't the Mitt Romneys, reaching across the aisle, unless they were trying to pick your wallet... 

And the wounded skies above say it's much much too late... maybe we should all be praying for time?  Listen without Prejudice, George Michael