Western Bullshit in Sri Lankan war

On Tuesday June 19th, Seven Afghan Children died in an attack by US and British led forces. They died when a School was attacked by mistake instead of a Taleban camp that was in close proximity to the Madrassas (a radical Islamic School). I have scoured and scanned every major western newspaper to see if the Indian, Norwegian, British or American governments had condemned or regretted this action and violation of Human Rights. I did not see any comment except by Human Right organizations about the excesses committed and are being committed by American and British led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This tragedy has been repeated many times when wedding parties were attacked, schools bombed, Mosques bombed by Air strikes etc: most if not all these incidents were not deliberate; but they were most likely errors in judgment, timing or errors in intelligence and errors in technology. Now the US and British airforce have the best guided weapons systems in the world. They have the best Aircraft and most sophisticated Satellite based information systems they deploy before ordering a strike. They have cameras and communications and they have the capability of withdrawing or avoiding a strike within seconds.

Now despite all their billions of dollars worth of technology, such horrific battlefield tragedies and errors still occur. They just shrug their shoulders and say "collateral damage". If the Sri Lankan forces make a mistake or even if they strike a legitimate target where civilians are used as shelter for Tiger actions, or if they strike a dual purpose station used for paramilitary training, the British HC, the Norwegians and the US Embassy take it upon themselves to give advice and condemn these incidents and lecture to the brave SL forces with their long experience and sensitivity training(lacking in US and British troops in Iraq).

That is really a queer expression of double standards and as they say at the Lord’s Cricket Grounds: simply is not cricket.