UK Discovers War Crimes Only Matter When Convenient
A former UK officer has finally told an inquiry that British special forces in Afghanistan likely committed war crimes, executing suspects with widespread knowledge within the chain of command (Al-Monitor). One might wonder if this 'discovery' comes at a time when the British public is sufficiently distracted by other international crises, making this old news feel less like a new outrage and more
like an inconvenient footnote. This isn't a revelation; it's a procedural post-mortem that conveniently unfolds a decade after the fact. While the press dutifully reports the 'inquiry,' they gloss over the systemic failures and political expediency that allowed such atrocities to be buried, only now to be unearthed as a 'shocking' confession. Funny how 'widespread knowledge' remained so silent for
so long, isn't it?