I remeber a few years back when the US was actually invested in Afghanistan, 4 Canadian soldiers were killed by 2 American f-16s. There was a huge outcry in my country about how that could happen. I wasn't as perturbed since I understood that in any kind of warzone friendly fire happens, especially with Joint Ops between differnet militaries. That said I was angry about it and wondered how the Americans could bumble it. With such specialized air power I wondered how they couldn't know where their allies were on the map.
Well what really pissed me off was that they went after the 2 pilots instead of the people who ordered them to do it, and who confirmed that they were enemies when the recordings showed that the pilots were unsure and repeatedly asked for confirmation. They did their job and someone upstairs screwed up. The wrong heads rolled and these Americans are now suffering a worse shame than just having to live with killing the friendlies to begin with. The politics of warfare, post-Vietnam, stink madly.
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