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  • We’re still lying to ourselves about American military power (hurkl alert)

    08/31/2021 3:17:55 PM PDT · by Ennis85 · 3 replies
    Washington Post ^ | August 30th 2021 | Paul Waldman
    On Monday morning, we learned that a U.S. drone strike targeted at a car bomb “killed 10 civilians in Kabul, including several small children,” and that “the dead were all from a single extended family and were getting out of a car in their modest driveway when the strike hit a nearby vehicle.” Unlike most such events — and there have been hundreds over our two-decade War on Terror — this one will get a bit of notice in the U.S. media. But only a bit. Neither these deaths, nor the deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers at the Kabul airport,...