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I suspect that the US special forces in this instance were told not to upset the delicate relationship with the warlord
Yep. that is also what I think happened and why this was covered. But does it make it any better? No
The USA has choosen assholes as allies once again. The northern alliance is no way better that the taliban. Problem is: the USA should know that
It has always been this way and the USA seems not to learn.
If they looked the other way during this episode, they might actually have been following orders
"i was just follwing orders" is a really bad excuse. Every time a US soldier say that I want to punch him (saw a interview with some soldiers fom Abu Graib a few days ago, same excuse)
I did however watch the videos of Jews being buried in Hitler-era concentration camps
and do you know how german soldiers excused the atrocities they commited?
yep, they were just following orders...
thousands of Muslim men were killed in Srebrenica during the Balkan wars. Dutch troops failed to stop the Serbs from doing that
But AFAIK they tried to stop it or at least they reported what happened. And the the Serbs were our enemy not our allies like the NA was/is.
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