Read the report ! numbers are staggering and sad indeed as these are human beings after all..not war bots ..but people with Mothers,Fathers,Wives,Children and Brothers&Sisters etc...sent out to wage war in some distant land with a belief that it will 'protect' them on the longer run!
Nearly 130,000 US troops have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and vastly more have experienced brain injuries.over 1,700 have undergone life-changing limb amputations. over 50,000 have been wounded in action. as of Wednesday the report says 6,656 US troops and US defense department civilians have died but they have failed to account the hundreds if not thousands of third party contractors ,like Philippino security guards or Pakistani Truck drivers killed while serving US Govt and Private Contractors in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
What the US will not publish is the full body count of civilians killed in both invasions and the periods following...but of course the US will keep on telling minor States like Sri Lanka to uphold human rights and come up with measures like 'accountability' etc.. while even front line US commanders accused of cold blooded killings of civilians ,go squat free.
Some lessons ,we too can learn! but make no mistake, US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan got no parallels with Sri Lanka.we were effectively fighting to fend ourselves and the people of our country..while they, the US was fighting to impose their way of thinking on some other state, on its people and to reshape a land ,according to how US saw it fitting!
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