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Human Rights Watch reports that 1,633 Afghan civilians were killed in 2007 and 929 in 2006. And, those killed in U.S. bomb attacks are accounting for a greater and greater proportion of the civilian deaths as that war goes on. As the Rand Corporation predicts in such circumstances, this has only led to an increase in popular support for those resisting the U.S. military onslaught. In short, the war is counterproductive."
Anyone have numbers for civilians killed in Afghan for 2008, 9, 10 or 11? If those numbers went down significantly (and I think they did), that ruins the doom-and-gloom of the report. Wasn't 08 about the time when the general in charge over there went 'hearts and minds' with baiting and precision hits for the terrorists and much less bombing?
At any rate, we certainly did not continue in the circumstances of 2006 to 2007; when civilian deaths from airstrikes tripled.
Was the report released during the 'push'?