Remembering the Kabul Drone Strike

Our government just blew these people up on its way out the door, and no one responsible for that decision will ever answer for it.

Azmat Khan reports on the findings of a Central Command investigation into the deadly Kabul drone strike at the end of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan:

Responding to a description of the document released to The Times, Hina Shamsi, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer representing families of victims, said the investigation “makes clear that military personnel saw what they wanted to see and not reality, which was an Afghan aid worker going about his daily life.”

The drone strike on August 29, 2021 in Kabul killed 10 civilians. To this day, Khan reports, none of the relatives of the victims has received any compensation from the U.S. government. There were no disciplinary consequences for anyone involved in the strike, and there has evidently been no accountability of any kind for wrongfully killing all these people. Our government just blew these people up on its way out the door, and no one responsible for that decision will ever answer for it.