Indiscriminate insurgent attacks in Afghanistan have made that country a lethal place for civilians. The useful idiots who protest that Afghan civilians are in as much danger - if not more - from NATO as from the Taliban are not only equating the policeman with the thug he is sent in to arrest. They are also simply wrong; it seems that almost 90 percent of Afghan casualties were killed by the Taliban, not the international forces meant to stop them. From Counting the Dead in Afghanistan:
For the first time, those data are now publicly available. In January, ISAF provided Science with a database of civilian casualties called CIVCAS. It is the military's internal record of the death and injury of Afghan civilians, broken down by month, region, weaponry, and perpetrator. By its reckoning, 2537 civilians were killed and 5594 were wounded over the past 2 years, with 12% of those casualties attributed to ISAF forces and the rest to insurgents. The death toll is 93% identical to that in the WikiLeaks data, revealing
Indiscriminate insurgent attacks in Afghanistan have made that country a lethal place for civilians. The useful idiots who protest that Afghan civilians are in as much danger - if not more - from NATO as from the Taliban are not only equating the policeman with the thug he is sent in to arrest. They are also simply wrong; it seems that almost 90 percent of Afghan casualties were killed by the Taliban, not the international forces meant to stop them. From 
