A new U.S. offensive in Afghanistan is underway. Despite the promises below, please keep in your heart the innocent people who will, without doubt, be victimized by this latest military action.
The operation was aimed at putting pressure on insurgents “and to show our commitment to the Afghan people that when we come in we are going to stay long enough to set up their own institutions,” Captain (Bill) Pelletier said.
He said the US military was prepared for casualties, but stressed that “it is absolutely essential that no civilians be harmed”.
“We do not want people of Helmand province to see us as an enemy, we want to protect them from the enemy,” he said.
Addressing Marine commanders days before the assault, Dutch Major-General Mart de Kruif compared it to the D-Day invasion that changed the course of World War Two.
“We have people out there who do not realise that progress is about to come to them,” he said.
Perhaps history makes that a little difficult.
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