that would be a pretty sweet Spec Ops The Line moment: you spend the whole game shelling houses from across the river because anyone left in the city is a terrorist by definition, then the game slowly peels back all of the bullshit until you see the actual real not a propaganda piece story of an iraqi civilian

relatedly i've been listening to the audiobook of Andrew Cockburn's "Kill Chain" and it's honestly kinda funny how absurd these slugs are, especially drone operators

they're not women, that wouldn't make sense in an ambush convoy. must just be men in disguise

bullshit, i didn't see a kid. maybe an adolescent

afghan men stand up to pee, but foreign fighters squat

they got out of the cars to pray and wash in the river, they're obviously preparing to attack the american soldiers they're driving away from