The investigators discovered that quote the us military has shown it can investigate civilian harm but significant in inconsistent season when and how investigations are conducted has contributed to shortcomings including a failure to investigate incidents when a close look is warranted and missed opportunities to learn from incidents and make future corrections this includes the fact that according to journalist nick turse the Standard Practice is troubling because while u. S. Investigators regularly interview military witnesses they almost totally ignore civilians victims survivors Family Members and bystanders because you know hey well how would i would civilians know anything about civilian casualties in a war zone. I mean its almost my friends its almost like they would rather pretend that civilian casualties dont exist when the u. S. Pulls the trigger which is impossible if you are truly watching the hawks. On a city street. Or so you would see. Joyce. Grays. Systemic deception.
Blew up your brother exactly and i think that thats you know but more of the long range view because youre also thinking about the individuals who are left behind so its the families that are still surviving who have lost their children the families who are still surviving who have lost people who had absolutely nothing to do with the conflict they were in and it again it raises the ire of those individuals but now you have generations that are upset with you because youve been literally taking out whole families and in many cases nothing was ever done about in these people arent even acknowledged exactly i mean a little like this in 2017 New York New York times magazine investigation of nearly 150 u. S. Led Coalition Airstrikes targeting isis in just iraq just iraq they found that one in 5 of the Coalition Strikes resulted in civilian deaths that was a rate that was 30 times more than what was acknowledged by the coalition now thats a big discrepancy and i understand why this report w
On a city street. Or so you would see. This is. Great. Systemic deception. Which. Is the case whenever you see like you know reports come back from the u. S. Government is opposed to like on the ground watch dogs would be always be this huge discrepancy but boy this is really nuts and bolts of why it doesnt work absolutely i think that this was one of lot of people already thought when it comes to our military and the amount of information that we just dont know and in many cases purposely so as it appears here the big thing that bothers me i think is that we know what the rules of war are and proportionality as well as discrimination discrimination and this is actually a good thing meaning that you are only attacking those who are responsible for the previous attack on you so youre only attacking combatants youre not purposely going after or not purposely going after those who are civilians and i think that you know not being able to measure civilian casualties are not actually going
Absolutely i think that this was one of lot of people already thought when it comes to our military and the amount of information that we just dont know and in many cases purposely so as it appears here the big thing that bothers me i think is that we know what the rules of war are and proportionality as well as discrimination discrimination and this is actually a good thing meaning that you are only attacking those who are responsible for the previous attack on you so youre only attacking combat youre not purposely going after or not purposely going after those who are civilians and i think that you know not being able to measure civilian casualties or not actually going in to investigate the civilian casualties is a huge problem one because it totally be legitimized. As a nation but also if were going to continue carrying around this democracy everywhere all the time banner as a leader its going to be extremely problematic for people to follow along and actually stand us in that when
To cnbc first around 9 30 eastern time this morning. Well also be talking to an analyst in just a few moments about ges offer, what he thinks ultimately will happen with this deal. First, more headlines from andrew. Andrew, good morning. You made it. Good morning. We can tell that story in just a little bit. Lets get you through some of the other headlines first. Two big names reporting after the bell. Twitter reported lackluster user and usage growth for the second consecutive quarter. That raised concerns about the company maintaining the mass following weve been talking about. The news on the growth overshadowing the betterthanexpected results. Twitter stock falling below postipo twice of 38. 80, that was the ipo low of 38. 80 on november 25th. You can see right now were at 37. 58. Also, lets talk about ebay a little bit. The company earning 70 cents a share versus on estimate of 67 cents. Revenue topping estimations as well. Coming in at 4. 26 billion. But guidance for its Second Q