(from Salon.com) ‘US attack kills 5 Afghan kids’ –Glenn Greenwald

The way in which the U.S. media ignores such events speaks volumes about how we perceive them

AN EXCERPT:  “Yesterday, I noted several reports from Afghanistan that as many as 20 civilians were killed by two NATO airstrikes, including a mother and her five children. Today, the U.S. confirmed at least some of those claims, acknowledging and apologizing for its responsibility for the death of that family…At some point — and more than a decade would certainly qualify — the act of continuously killing innocent people, countless children, in the Muslim world most certainly does reflect upon, and even alters, the moral character of a country, especially its leaders. You can’t just spend year after year piling up the corpses of children and credibly insist that it has no bearing on who you are. That’s particularly true when, as is the case in Afghanistan, the cause of the war is so vague as to be virtually unknowable”

ZEPHYR NOTE: Glenn Greenwald is one of the last courageous journalists left in America…

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http://www.salon.com/2012/05/08/us_attack_kills_5_afghan_kids/singleton/