The American commander in Afghanistan now believes that United States troops probably did not follow their own rules in calling in the airstrike that decimated a Doctors Without Borders hospital when no American and Afghan troops were in extreme danger, according to officials with direct knowledge of the general’s thinking.

Under the rules, airstrikes are authorized to kill terrorists, protect American troops and help Afghans who request support in battles — like those in Kunduz, recently taken over by the Taliban — that can change the military landscape. The idea is to give troops leeway but keep Americans out of daily, open-ended combat.

The Special Operations Forces most likely did not meet any of the criteria, the commander, Gen. John F. Campbell, has said in private discussions, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.

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Prosecute the war criminal Obama

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least 160,000 have been killed in Chechnya since 1994, has never been on the international table

– let alone that of intervening in the United States or the United Kingdom, despite these states’

responsibility for the extraterritorial killing of many thousands of civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan,

Pakistan, Yemen, and, of course, Libya.

In such a context, the possibility of drawing an unbroken

line between ‘ruthless’ and ‘unambiguously catastrophic’ acts, between ‘sovereignty’ and ‘intervention’,

and between ‘moral’ and ‘legal’ diminishes to its vanishing point

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