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US empire will never admit any wrongdoing: Analyst

1st May, 2016 · admin 2 Comments
Dean Henderson

Dean Henderson

Press TV
May 1, 2016

An American geopolitical commentator says the United Sates is an empire and empires never admit any wrongdoing, they always blame others.

Dean Henderson, an author and columnist at Veterans Today, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday, after a US military investigation concluded that American forces did not commit any war crimes by conducting a deadly attack on an Afghan hospital that was run by Doctors Without Borders.

On October 3, 2015, a US gunship bombed the hospital in the Afghan northern city of Kunduz for more than an hour, killing 42 people, and injuring 37 others.

“The investigation concluded that certain personnel failed to comply with the rules of engagement and the law of armed conflict, however, the investigation did not conclude that these failures amounted to a war crime,” General Joseph Votel, commander of US Central Command, said in a media briefing on Friday.

The general, who headed US Special Operations Command at the time, argued that the attack did not amount to a war crime because none of the service members were aware that they were striking a hospital.

The report added that fatigue and “high operational tempo” also contributed to the tragic incident. The US military took disciplinary action against 16 servicemen in relation to the airstrike.

Commenting on the development, Henderson said, “It is very brutal for the US to minimize [the importance of this incident] and say, ‘Well, [it was a] technical error, human error, sorry.’  No big shots, no heads are going to roll, no big investigation, nothing.

“It just shows that the state of the United Sates — just how lame it is. It is an empire, and empire can never admit any wrongdoing. It always just blames somebody else,” he stated.

Doctors Without Borders said in a statement Friday that the punishments were inadequate and it would like to see an “independent and impartial” investigation.

According to the Geneva-based medical charity, the incident “constitutes a war crime,” and has demanded an international investigation, but none has been undertaken.

Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Opinion/Editorial, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Kunduz |
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2 thoughts on “US empire will never admit any wrongdoing: Analyst”

  1. Ali Goali says:
    May 1, 2016 at 10:22 am

    KOONDOOZ
    “hospital bombing”

    By:
    Kabuli

    THE INTERNATIONAL
    “THUGS. AND THUG-MARS”
    are too arrogant to admit “wrong-doing”- it is just unbelievable !

    WHO IS TO BLAME ?????

    According to the US and European moral and legal laws, if a child get attacked and killed by a “foreign stray dog”; the mad dog then would be immediately taken out permanently.

    Now, my question is; whether how to treat an unwelcomed brain washed invader who illegally runs wild all over the country with extreme contempt for the locals.

    BROTHERS AND SISTERS !

    You can clearly see the CONTRADICTORY logic of the same diseased “DOGS” who are cowardly supporting so called “warfares” while at the same time exonerating the international criminal squads of perpetrators who savagely dropped lethal bombs on innocent doctors and patients under the “internationally-recognized sanctuary” of a locally-run public hospital.

    One of the main reason, (beside geo-political gains), that the “MEGALOMANIACS” hate Muslims is, due to the feelings of allocation of inferior status, just like all other religions, to non-believers in Islam.

    The warmongers want to feel good, all the time, like a complete man in charge- that is why he thinks that he could only thrive forcefully through imposition and continuation of anarchy; dictatorial rules and extreme underdevelopments for most Islamic countries.

    IRONICALLY. you could also see the same mass murderering thugs who are striving hard to turn his whole sick game into one big money-making; self-sustaining “WAR BONANZA”.

    THE WESTERN THUGS DO NOT SEEK AND DISCUSS CIVILIZED HARMONY AND MUTUAL RESPECT- THEY JUST ATTACK LIKE A SELF-INDUCED MAD DOG. FOR CONTROL.

    •••••

    PLEASE REMEMBER:

    THERE IS NO WAR IN

    AFGHANISTAN

    JUST IMPOSED ATROCITIES

    BY

    Anglo-US

    PARASITES

    ——————————————————————————

  2. Ali Goali says:
    May 2, 2016 at 12:22 am

    You are wrong !
    %100

    How then your arrogant leaders are kissing the ass of the Chinese, as always, at the present tense.
    ?????

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