"Our" leaders call it asymmetrical warfare. One thing that is definitely asymmetrical is what "we" do to "them" compared to what "they" do to "us". A quick couple of examples.
In March 2012 US soldier Robert Bales massacred 16 Afghan civilians including nine children during a night-time attack on two Kandahar province
villages.
According to Jeremy Scahill's Dirty Wars, in February 2010 US
special forces, acting on information about an alleged Taliban compound in
Gardez in Afghanistan ,
raided the compound in the middle of the night, killing a number of men and two
pregnant women. But they weren’t Taliban. In fact they were doing a most anti-Taliban thing, which was having a party with live
music to celebrate the naming of a child. Furthermore the man of the house was a
senior Afghan police commander who had been trained by the US forces. When the US
commandos realised what they had done, they dug the bullets out of the women’s bodies,
told their commanders that there had been a Taliban ambush and that they were
essentially heroes that had gone in and saved everyone else. But then the
family contacted reporters and Jerome Starkey of The Times reported that this was a botched Nato raid and that Nato had
tried to cover it up. Nato first accused him of lying but, with media attention
focused on the village and the family, they changed tack and admitted that their
forces had killed these pregnant women and that the men were not Taliban
commanders.
And has any of that been in the front-page news alongside the murder of Lee Rigby?
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