...let's not get TOO worked up about these things."
Good old "Fog of War," making it easier for bloodthirsty ghouls to sleep since...well, since they invented the term:
A bomb apparently dropped by an American fighter jet called in for air support killed three British soldiers in southern Afghanistan, officials said Friday. Two soldiers were seriously wounded...
After an inquest into the death of British soldier Lance Cpl. Matty Hull, 25, killed in a friendly fire attack by two American pilots in Iraq in 2003, opposition legislators in Britain called for improvements in joint identification systems.
Britain last year threatened to end cooperation with the U.S. on the new Joint Strike Fighter jet after 10 years of development, until the Pentagon resolved concerns it was not sharing enough information about the aircraft's sensitive software with London.
Earlier this year, Britain's Defense Secretary Des Browne said that since 1990 12 British personnel had died in friendly fire incidents involving U.S. forces in Iraq, but that there had been no such deaths in Afghanistan.
U.S. fire has mistakenly killed five Canadian soldiers — one last September during intense airstrikes on Taliban strongholds near Kandahar, and four in April 2002 when an American pilot dropped a 500-pound bomb near where the troops were apparently conducting a live-fire exercise.
In August 2006, a bomb mistakenly dropped by coalition aircraft killed 10 Afghan police officers on a patrol in the country's southeast.
Meanwhile, Kristol, who probably throws epic hissy fits if the waitstaff doesn't meet his stringent, exacting standards, publicly thinks nothing of tossing more military lives into the meat grinder...and some guy who calls himself Atrios has a few things to say--and show--re: Mr. The-World-is-Flat-and-I-am-the-Moustache-of-Undertanding.
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