tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post8715324233715833443..comments2024-03-28T03:54:21.932-04:00Comments on Canadian Cynic: Friendly fireCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11406057201126015750noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-89478694200636722062007-07-15T00:49:00.000-04:002007-07-15T00:49:00.000-04:00I have a very small amount of information about th...I have a very small amount of information about this incident, because I met one of the men wounded in this incident not long ago. He's a reservist and he had been in Afghanistan only a few weeks when he was hit by the American.<BR/><BR/>As it turns out, the pilot fired for only a second or two before breaking off the attack -- as though he realised, just as he touched his trigger, that something was wrong. However, those cannons fire thousands of rounds a minute (upwards of four thousand if I remember right), and it took only that very brief time to chew up a whole platoon's worth of soldiers.<BR/><BR/>But what I'm getting at is that it was even less a sure thing when that pilot fired than it seems. There was doubt. It was preventable.<BR/><BR/>The question is, what do we have to do to get the Americans on our side? This soldier I met is not asking for anything from our military or theirs -- he's at peace with the whole thing, and good for him, too. But it's the duty of the rest of us to ask our government and theirs, what are you doing to protect our people from this? What will you change to make this never happen again?<BR/><BR/>Because my young crippled friend won't ask. The military won't ask. That kind of thing comes from you and me. And if we owe these dead and wounded anything, we owe them that.M@https://www.blogger.com/profile/13408488215496128814noreply@blogger.com