This fact isn’t stated often enough.
Not to mention the usually cited helicopter video is highly edited and anything but impartial, with an American Bradley fighting vehicle under ambush a block away as can be heard in the audio. And I can’t fathom why a journalist, accompanied by men with AK’s themselves, would be pointing what obviously looks like an RPG from a distance at troops in a firefight- not to mention bringing women and in children with him in the minivan.
If this highly edited footage was the worst that could be found in such a large dump of documents- I’m highly underwhelmed.
Evidence of war crimes? Hardly. A chance to see how ugly these conflicts are and another reason why Americsn troops perhaps should never have been there in the first place? Yep, absolutely.
But my hunch is that the entire event is a Rohrschack test where most people will take away from it the same perceptions that they walked in with.
