# Afghanistan Today

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afghanistan-today/948624
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 13, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afghanistan-today/948624 "2021-08-13T18:38:06Z")
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### Author: ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2021, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afghanistan-today/948624/509 "2021-09-18T03:59:48Z")

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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> But it was apparently good enough to specifically target someone who planned the attack they didn’t know about. […]
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> Except it was a U.S. friendly Afghan worker and his family. Seven children killed.

Oh, now they tell us it’s okay to get upset about the US killing Afghan civilians. [What a difference twenty years makes.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tactical-nukes-should-we-use-em/97721/5)

> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> [March 2002]
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> Second, HOW DARE the rest of the world criticise the U.S. You America bashers frankly make me sick. The U.S. has been incredibly restrained so far in this ‘war’. The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan is measured in the hundreds, and on the low end of that scale. That is unheard of in a military operation of this size, and it’s testament to the great care in which the U.S. has been fighting.

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