Last week the US was accused of killing women and children in an air raid. Yesterday saw a riot in Kabul, which had been a relatively peaceful place, after an accident in which a US truck lost its brakes and plowed into people and cars, leaving dead and injured Afghans. Things got so bad that a curfew, the first in four years, was imposed. Perhaps, the building suffering the worst damage was that occupied by CARE; it seems that rioters delight in destroying those organizations which are trying to help them in an unselfless way.
For a good sense of what it was like in Kabul yesterday listen to this report from a reporter from the Financial Times; it's especially harrowing after the first two minutes.
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