There are presently some 10,000 US troops in Afghanistan, along with an estimated 20,000 military contractors and several hundred CIA operatives. While Obama claims to have ended US combat operations in the country, his administration has ordered a sharp increase in night assassination raids by American special forces troops against Afghan villages, as well as stepped-up aerial bombardments of suspected insurgent targets.
Both tactics aroused intense popular hostility and were formally proscribed by former President Hamid Karzai. They have received support, however, from his successor, Ashraf Ghani, who is increasingly desperate in the face of a rising offensive by anti-regime forces.
The military escalation has exacted a brutal toll upon the Afghan civilian population. The United Nations agency for Afghanistan documented 10,548 civilian casualties last year (3,699 deaths and 6,849 injuries). This represents a 25 percent increase in the number of fatalities over the previous year and the highest number of civilian deaths and injuries since the UN began systematically recording casualties in 2009.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/02/24/pers-f24.html
In other words, we're slaughtering the innocent people of a nation which never attacked us and posed no real threat, except to the puppet dictators we put in power to help us slaughter them.
Just like what happened in Vietnam.
Will this have a Vietnam-style ending? Looks that way, except this time it will be the US that doesn't give back all the POWs.
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