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Matthew Keys, the social media editor at Reuters, posted audio of a reporter asking White House Press Secretary Jay Carney if U.S. bombings that kill innocent civilians in Afghanistan constitute an act of terror given the labeling of the Boston Marathon bombing as terrorism. She specifically refers to a U.S. airstrike earlier this month that killed 11 children, just the latest in a seemingly endless line of Afghan civilian deaths at the hands of the U.S. government.
Carney completely dodged the questions, pointing instead to the 9/11 terrorist attacks to justify U.S. bombings in Afghanistan. After a long-winded answer excusing U.S. conduct, Carney concludes, we take great care in the prosecution of this war.
Reporter Asks White House if U.S. Airstrikes That Kill Afghan Civilians Qualify as ?Terrorism? | Dispatches from the Underclass
Why won't they just call it terrorism?