"Gathering Firewood, 9 Afghan Boys Killed by NATO Helicopters" http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/world/asia/03afghan.html?_r=1&ref=world
Yup, that's the way to build good will and "win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people" Did I mention that we just created about 1000 new Al Qaida in a single day? That is how you make progress!
This is what happens when you don't have just cause to fight a war. Hearts and minds? Stupidest way to fight if there ever was one. When you have just cause, 9 kids getting smoked doesn't mean anything. There's no such thing as collateral damage. Everybody gets greased until what's left of the enemy finally surrenders. Did we give a shit how many civilians died in Germany? No! Who cared about the city's being bombed in Japan? Nobody, that's who. Once the enemy surrenders, then and only then does a nation show it's compassion. Until that moment, kill them all. Don't have the stomach for that? Then think long and hard before going to war cause that's the only way victory is achieved. We didn't think long and hard, so here we are killing kids when we have no just cause to do so.