Spoiler
To the whole debate earlier regarding air strikes, I believe someone mentioned how these air strikes are coordinated and performed in a manner that makes them useful (targeting terrorists).
The U.S accidentally placed an airstrike on a doctors without borders facility killing 42 people and injuring much more, 16 U.S officials including a two-star general are being investigated for it.
" "Patients burned in their beds, medical staff were decapitated and lost limbs, and others were shot by the circling AC-130 gunship while fleeing the burning building," Doctors Without Borders said in its report of the attacks released in November.
President Barack Obama has apologized for the attack, which was conducted to support Afghan troops attempting to retake the city, and the Pentagon has referred to it as a “mistake.” "
This happened a few months ago, but the investigation just finished, this is one of many incidents that have occurred with these 'coordinated airstrikes'.
I feel like Trump will just continue on the war route but make it even worse than it is, I can see a lot more innocent casualties occurring if he is elected and decides to wipe out ISIS with as much brute force as possible.
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I'm not trying to undermine the significance of the tragedy of the U.S. killing innocents accidentally, because it is awful, and shouldn't happen. That doesn't necessarily mean airstrikes are the problem. It could mean that the time surveilling areas before airstrikes isn't long enough, they aren't gathering enough intelligence before acting, could be a human error, etc. All are no reason to let that happen. Please don't take what I'm about to say as being that I am OK with innocents dying. However...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5659239.html
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/19/middle...an-death-toll/
I don't necessarily favor airstrikes. I'm fine with ground troops. Strategy and intelligence is important. I do think airstrikes along with good intelligence can be the most efficient way to fight the war with ISIS. My point is something needs to be done, a lot more than currently is. There's always going to be innocents that die. When you're dealing with people like ISIS, civilian casualties are impossible to avoid. I'm not undermining the value of the lives for the innocents who died, and it's really hard to say what I mean in words, but ISIS is doing much more than that 1 accident did. I know there's more than that 1 accident in which we have killed innocent civilians, but that statement was for stating my point.