Biden’s last Afghan bombing demonstrates criminality of entire war

It took 19 days but the U.S. military finally admitted what everybody else knew on Day 1. The last U.S. drone bombing in Afghanistan, obliterated no terrorists, just Afghan aid worker Zemari Ahmadi and 9 family members, including 7 children.

For 20 years the U.S. has been killing innocents with bombs dropped from drones and planes. For 20 years the military always says the attacks only kill Taliban or ISIS. Most of those bombings occurred in rural areas with no reporters around, preventing any scrutiny of the endless civilian carnage. This last outrage occurred in Kabul during the evacuation so proof of the victims’ innocence was impossible for the military to cover up. But for 18 days they continued the standard refrain the bombing was ‘righteous.’

Government employees who rat out our murderous military face prosecution and prison. Daniel Hale, a National Security Agency intelligence officer just received a 45 month prison sentence for revealing that in a 5 month period in 2012-13, 90% of Afghans killed in U.S. strikes were innocent civilians. Hale doesn’t deserve prison, he should instead get a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his courageous action.

What happened to the Ahmadi clan on August 29th is why the 1945-46 Nuremberg War Crime Trials declared unjust war to be the supreme international crime. The reason is all the deaths, injuries, displaced civilians, destruction of a nation’s infrastructure emanate from that supreme crime.

The invasion and destruction of Afghanistan in America’s criminal Afghan war created millions of dead, injured, displaced for no justifiable reason whatsoever. It actually worsened U.S. national security on several levels including generating enormous recruitment for extremist groups seeking revenge, and not following up on the many connections of the 911 attacks to our best purchaser of military gear, Saudi Arabia.

Before you point out we’re gone from Afghanistan and no such further war crimes can occur, consider this. President Biden has bragged about obtaining ‘over the horizon capability’ to bomb anyone, anywhere, anytime in Afghanistan going forward from bases outside Afghanistan.

Even tho the military has fessed up this latest, grotesque American atrocity, don’t expect anyone to be held accountable. The U.S. embarked on unjust, unnecessary criminal war 20 years ago and answers to no one. But history will judge 21st century America harshly. In 1946, America led the world in prosecuting war crimes. Seventy-five years on, America leads the world in committing war crimes.