Friendly fire that killed Canadians was ‘freak accident’.
Is it just me, or does it seem like more Canadians in Afghanistan get killed by “friendly fire” than by the Taliban insurgents? Is anyone sent there even remotely competent?
Stephen Harper has made it no secret that he intends to increase our defence budget, which is all well and good in a way, since our military sucks. I think that there should definitely be a new training program included with this budget; in the program, Canadian soldiers will learn how to put on disguises to make them look like famous historical figures, and thus avoid being shot.
The crew of the aircraft responsible for the friendly fire, of course, claimed that Han shot first.
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Same with us Brits, and the Americans initially. Friendly Fire was found to be the cause of more deaths than insurgent ambushes or attacks. Probably still is.
I think the US military requires the training, I wouldn’t put it past these same dolts responsible to shoot General Lincoln. Preferably they’d be trained on chapters “How to Aim”, “Beards and Bards: the difference between the enemy and the ally” and “10 ways not to commit accidental genocide”. I like how Mark Laity conveniently ignores the overall scale of Friendly Fire by pointing out that this particular group hadn’t been involved in an instance before. You’d think he‘d know by now a war cannot be tracked by individuals but one must look at it as a whole.
Mistakes happen I guess but it seems odd that these mistakes seem to be margionally coming from one particular army.
As powerful as the US army is, it won’t make much of a mark if it keeps shooting itself - or its allies - in the foot. 
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at 12:18 PM