![]() ![]() If you've experienced war, in or out of uniform, give us a call, 80. Today, we talk with a former infantry officer and with an expert on the rules of combat about what the rest of us don't understand about war, about the context. Those of us back home are shocked and disturbed by these images in part because pictures like these are so unusual, not because incidents like these are so unusual but because wars in Iraq and Afghanistan sometimes seem as if they're being conducted out of sight. Twelve people died in that incident, some armed, some not, two of them reporters. Last week, millions looked at a leaked, grainy video of an airstrike from a helicopter gunship in Baghdad three years ago. Today, American troops near the southern city of Kandahar in Afghanistan peppered a bus with gunfire that left at least four civilians dead and 18 wounded, images of the casualties and the shot-up bus appear on various news outlets.
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