murder at Kunduz hospital

This thorough report, which Laura Gottesdiener based on the word of people targeted in the bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan where killed 30 patients and staff members were killed and the hospital destroyed, is very hard to take. (It appeared on the insightful site, tomdispatch.) The US general in charge of our military in Afghanistan called the attack -- the murders -- "a tragic mistake." Tragic? Oh yes, and as mistaken as could be. But if you believe Gottesdiener (and everything about her report stands up to scrutiny), it becomes clear that the avoidable -- or at the very least, stoppable -- mistake was one more mess in a mess of a war, a war that we supposedly are no longer fighting.The US military did an internal investigation and suspended several people. Details of their punishment aren't available yet, nearly two months after the event.