Stardate 20011011.0605 (On Screen): The Taliban are claiming that the US is now targeting civilians, and claims that 100 of them died in yesterday's bombings. This claim is false on its face: if we were
really targeting civilians, the death toll would be a hell of a lot higher. If we were to carpet-bomb Kandahar, for example, we could easily kill upwards of 10,000 people in a single night. One B-52 can drop 140 500-pound bombs on a city, and a 500-pound bomb makes a very big crater. Why would we target civilians with a single bomb? What possible military goal would that accomplish?
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