And it is certainly not over. Afghan civilian deaths hit record high in the past year. I don’t much care if combatants kill other combatants, or injure them, or destroy their lives. They choose to be combatants, so they decided to ‘live by the sword’ and if they are dead by the sword, tough for them. But civilians are not combatants. They are just people trying to live their lives and they likely do not have the choice to up and move somewhere else where there is no combat.
It is them that I feel sorry for, it is them that I grieve.
And now, we learn that Afghan civilians are dying at a record pace. The war of aggression that the US started in 2001 continues unabated, no matter what nonsense comes out of Mr. Obama’s mouth.
Last year was the deadliest on record for civilians in Afghanistan, the UN said in a report on Wednesday, with more civilians killed in 2014 than since the agency began compiling figures in 2009. While Nato has ended its combat mission, and Barack Obama has declared that America’s longest war is ending responsibly, fighting in the country is intensifying.
“In communities across Afghanistan, increased ground fighting among parties to the conflict and more IED attacks exacted a heavy toll on Afghan civilians,” said the top UN envoy, Nicholas Haysom.
The report (pdf) documented 3,699 civilian deaths in 2014, the highest death toll since the UN began keeping systematic record in 2009. Another 6,849 people were injured, bringing the number of civilian casualties to 10,548, a 22% jump from last year. The total civilian death toll after more than a decade of war is now almost 18,000.
So, in Afghanistan alone, more then six times as many innocents were killed than were killed on 9/11. Actually, it is probably way more than six times larger, since many deaths are not even counted. And every last one of them had nothing to do with the attacks on 9/11.
We are a nation of killers. We have no morals at all.
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