Gah. There’s an error on pages 191–192 in my 2017 book Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan. A vet just wrote me to point out that I was in fact wrong to say that all 64 people killed in a battle in Kunar Province in February 2011 were “innocent.” My citation does not say that. The error is mine, and I don’t really know how I could’ve screwed it up.
The story clearly says the governor claimed “16 insurgents, 22 women, and 26 young boys,” while ISAF said that 36 were armed fighters (which would still leave 28 civilians killed). My correspondent recalls an Apache crew reporting seeing 18 fighters, whom they began to shoot before a spec ops C130 showed up to finish it.
