All we manage to do with our military presence and activity is to inflame regional and in-country conflicts, putting the very folks we claim to be 'liberating' in danger of blowback from our opportunistic military advance across their territory.
368 of Afghan deaths were deemed in this report the responsibility of NATO forces. The rest came from the insurgency. So much for the argument that these folks need us mucking around there.August 10, 2010
The United Nations says the number of civilians being killed or wounded in Afghanistan has risen by around one-third in the first half of 2010, despite a drop in the number of casualties caused by U.S. and NATO forces.
The figures are contained in a report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). It says
1,271 Afghan civilians died and nearly 2,000 were injured in the first six months of 2010 -- up 31 percent compared to the same period last year.
Presenting the report in Kabul today, the top UN envoy in Afghanistan, Staffan De Mistura, called it a "wake-up call." He said the UN is worried that the human cost of the conflict is "being paid too heavily by civilians."
"Thirty-one percent means what? In real terms, in human being terms,
3,268 civilians during the past six months," he said. "Afghan civilians have been casualties of this conflict."
read more: http://www.rferl.org/content/Afghan_Citizens_Killed_Injured_Rising_Sharply/2123531.html
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