{"id":129007,"date":"2015-11-26T00:07:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T07:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/26\/mistakes-were-made-again.html"},"modified":"2015-11-26T00:07:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T07:07:10","slug":"mistakes-were-made-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/26\/mistakes-were-made-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Mistakes Were Made (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So let&#39;s assume that the 3000-page explanation of why a &quot;Doctors without Borders&quot; hospital in Afghanistan was targeted and destroyed by US forces is, in fact, completely correct. Mistakes and fatigue and error led to a tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Can we, <i>at the very least,<\/i> factor such inevitable mistakes \/ fatigue \/ errors \/ tragedies into any future political evaluations of the costs of military action? Because the military and\/or the politicians who keep pushing the US to take <i>bold, forthright, righteous, courageous action<\/i> against bad guys here and there (and they are often bad guys, no doubt of it) always seem to assume 100% efficiency, 100% accuracy, and 100% reliability in our being able to execute such military actions without mistakes \/ fatigue \/ errors leading to similar tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>Which, if acknowledged up front, just possibly sway public opinion about taking such military action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2015\/11\/military-tries-to-explain-kunduz-bombing.html?mid=twitter_nymag'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/5isf1GzjORj1bW3V_TlPRWf3gUdGnHKOZWwT2T-mMZJjfDGsz5bHAiOzfJmnS-UzQUsCaa23jtx4m9fb6_KmW62aES9gkznrxvS9wJYC0nFwb2XKI0ZKJC1yfFphs0Wmv6phaVoUZ2n5iyWpGxlV_VL7tO_1FAd3xsqNvyzyLA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2015\/11\/military-tries-to-explain-kunduz-bombing.html?mid=twitter_nymag'>Military Releases 3,000-Page Explanation of Why Kunduz Hospital Was Bombed<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just a case of operator error and instrument failure &mdash; not a war crime!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/PhBPAT13ugp'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So let&#39;s assume that the 3000-page explanation of why a &quot;Doctors without Borders&quot; hospital in Afghanistan was targeted and destroyed by US forces is, in fact, completely correct. Mistakes and fatigue and error led to a tragedy. Can we, at the very least, factor such inevitable mistakes \/ fatigue \/ errors \/ tragedies into any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/26\/mistakes-were-made-again.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mistakes Were Made (again)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11404,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/05\/how_not_to_put_together_a.html","url_meta":{"origin":129007,"position":0},"title":"How not to put together a resume","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Sep-07 12:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some good advice on the biggest mistakes in in writing your r\u00e9sum\u00e9: Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. 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