novachick wrote:
Yogi wrote:
This happened in a war zone. The rules of approaching any military installation-stationary or mobile- are well known by all. Warnings were given, and ignored by the cab driver. The responsibility for compensation lies with the cabby not Canada.
Agreed!!!!!
Why would the cab driver risk his life? That makes no sense.
Two points:
1) The news reports that the two front vehicles of the convoy passed before the cabby pulled out. Perhaps he thought the coast was clear and pulled out in error.
2) If you read up on it, you will see that the coalition forces routinely compensate for civilian casualties outside of "COMBAT". They do this to help prevent every poor bastard like this getting mad and targeting our troops. This makes sense, alot more sense than just ignoring him and blaming the cab driver.
It may not have entirely been the Canadians fault that these children died. But no good purpose is served by ignoring this man by telling him it was not our fault and to go fuck himself if he wants some sort of compensation.
Comon folks, pull your heads out of your asses and get real. We need to win this war and we are not going to do it by shooting people's kids and then turning our backs on them. Accidents are going to happen so lets minimize the risk of creating backlash and alienating the people we are suppose to be helping.
Your "we are better then them" attitude is not going to help save Canadian lives.
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