Doctors Without Borders is one of the finest nongovernmental organizations in the annals of humankind, and now it finds itself mourning the deaths of seven patients and 12 staff as a result of an errant NATO airstrike.
As catastrophic as the mistaken aerial bombardment on the charity’s compound in Afghanistan happened to be, and it was a very terrible event indeed, it must be observed that it joins a long string of such deadly fiascoes. They have marred America’s and NATO’s air power efforts within Afghanistan ever since the first Allied forces bombs fell on Oct. 7, 2001.
It speaks huge volumes about our multitrillions of dollars worth of Afghan-related counter-insurgency activities that there still remains in place a thick “Fog of War” blanket. No matter how magnificent our technological inputs have been, and they have been impressive indeed, horrific episodes like the Doctors Without Borders bombing keep occurring. This suggests that NATO is doomed to commit such gruesome acts so long as it remains dedicated to employing its military assets on behalf of the regime in Kabul.
The American-led Afghan conflict has been a desperately mistaken effort all along. That is not about to change.
