Is the US Military Accepting This Level of Civilian Casualties?

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No other military conducts as many air strikes in foreign countries as the U.S., he says. "We definitely have a responsibility to be the best at avoiding civilian casualties" He adds that if you carry out these kinds of air strikes, eventually civilians are going to die. The bombing outside the airport in cobble was so brutal, it was easy to see the us.

A US drone strike in Afghanistan was meant to take out an ISIS-K target. Reporting on the ground shows an aid worker and several children were killed. Matthieu Aikins, reporter at the New York Times, explains from Kabul.

Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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