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About About Axios. Advertise with us. More from News. At US-Mexico border, asylum seekers maintain hope amid hardships. After gangbuster debut, Rivian draws comparison to Tesla. Most Read. But last week, Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of US Central Command, which oversaw the drone attack, presented the results of an investigation into the operation that revealed that it had not targeted ISIS-K operatives but instead killed Afghan civilians, including seven children.
The admission and apology were stunning, especially as the unmanned drone strike was among the last US military actions with troops still on the ground in Afghanistan, bringing a year military presence in the country to a painful end. Opinion: What's really behind the 'Justice for J6' rally.
The anti-ISIS campaign in Iraq and Syria and the last seven years of US actions in Afghanistan have relied heavily on air attacks with precision munitions managed from a distance and with minimal, on-the-ground US military presence. Read More. McKenzie's remarks reviewed the secretive processes through which drone operations are managed, revealing the extraordinary military capacity of the US as well as the difficulty of meeting the stated goals of only targeting combatants and avoiding civilian casualties.
McKenzie explained that following the ISIS-K deadly attack on the Kabul airport, the military received multiple intelligence reports about how the group would use a white Toyota Corolla, one of the most common cars in the Afghan capital, in an upcoming operation. For eight hours, US military and intelligence watched live feeds of the car, its driver and others as they moved from one place to another, loading things in and out of the vehicle. Biden is not living up to his promises. Moreover, internationally reported statements like the one from Mr.
Gingrich have not helped matters. In such times, emotions run high, preserving face and an image of strength are critical, and it is all too easy to demonize the enemy. The most effective apologies, he writes, come after the conflict is over, and forgiveness becomes possible:. I have been surprised that most writers and researchers overlook the relationship between forgiveness and apology.
Forgiveness is often portrayed as a generous gift bestowed on us by someone we offended or as a gift we unconditionally extend to someone who offended us, regardless of an apology. Yet my own analysis has convinced me that forgiveness and apology are inextricably linked. Indeed, especially after a party has been humiliated, as in the case of Abu Ghraib, apology is a vital, often necessary, step toward assuaging feelings of humiliation, promoting forgiveness, and restoring balance to a relationship.
Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. You can follow him on Twitter! What would that be, exactly? I assume anyone in Afghanistan with a sense of reason would accept a sincere explanation that it was an accident. Amelie am, February 28, Link.
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