As a follow up to my
ode to McChrystal, there is a bit of vindication of his policies in what many would consider an unlikely news source. Read it:
Report: 2010 worst for Afghanistan
...Most civilian deaths - 661 - were caused by Taliban fighters, who showed "little or no respect for the safety and protection of non-combatants in their armed rebellion against the government and its foreign supporters", it said.
...The Taliban's main weapon, homemade bombs known as improvised explosive devices, were blamed for most of the deaths and injuries among Afghan civilians in the period, ARM said.
ARM (Afghanistan Rights Monitor) said that suicide attacks by Taliban bombers were the second biggest killer of civilians in the first half of this year, killing 127 non-combatants.
It said a reduction in air strikes, ordered by the former commander of foreign forces, US General Stanley McChrystal, had resulted in fewer civilian deaths attributed to US-led forces.
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Al Jazeera I just had to mention that.