Oopsies!
 Since
2001 the US has bombed at least nine
wedding parties in the mid-east. It
happens so regularly that it almost seems
to be a scheduled event, a mild diversion
to keep our boys alert in case real
hostilities
ever break out.
Most of these attacks
involved old-fashioned
bomb-runs
delivered
via B-52s or B-2s, the worst of which killed
47 people, primarily women and children.
The most recent attack, last
December in Yemen,
employed
a missile-equipped drone, killing twelve
men and wounded
fifteen as
they traveled to the groom's
village.
We here in Fortress America tend to blithely
ignore this tragic loss of life as
they're no one we know. Not our kind,
you understand.
They're just numbers, not living, breathing
humans who'd probably enjoy a coke and
a hot dog the same as us.
If Mexico mistakenly nuked a US
family reunion in Alamagordo the vast majority
of Americans would be out for blood. If
it happened nine times Mexico would now
be a hard,
glazed
spot in the desert.
It's all about who you know, I suppose.
Currently these mistakes can all be blamed
on operator error
but I've never heard of anyone being demoted
or courts-martialed as a result. But that's
not surprising as this here's 'Murca, where
the armed authority figure is always right.
=Lefty=
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