...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
allies are committed to reducing civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan,
Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Chateaubriand...
has said on Wednesday.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has promised that NATO forces will make efforts to reduce civilian casualties in the Afghan conflict.
Hillary Clinton was speaking at a joint news conference with Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota when she brought up
the issue of the warning by Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
against NATO air strikes. homes.
The comments came after Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Karzai recently warned that NATO air strikes that end up killing civilians will no longer be tolerated.
President Karzai said he had always stressed that the war against terrorism should be taken to terrorist sanctuaries and that NATO should stop attacking Afghan homes and villages.
Mr Karzai warned that if air strikes on Afghan homes did not stop, NATO would be viewed as an occupying force.
Mrs Clinton has said NATO is committed to reducing civilian casualties, but she stressed that the Taliban had cause most deaths within local populations.
"I would only underscore that that stands in stark contrast to the indiscriminate killing, the suicide kaboom, the IED's, the improvised bombs that are used by the bully boyz without regard for any human life," she has said.
She has said the incident would be thoroughly investigated, but added that it would remain a tragic fact that some civilian casualties would be inevitable in such a conflict.
Isaf has also said in a statement recently that coalition troops would make all necessary measures to reduce civilian casualties, but also expressed concern that Talibs were using civilians as human shields.
President Karzai issued his warnings against NATO after fourteen civilians including children were recently killed in a NATO air strike in southern Helmand province.