Making War Still Costs More Than Money.

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Let's momentarily escape the RNC bubble to talk about the value of life.

CLEVELAND, OHIO—There is still news going on out in the world beyond the concrete barriers and the tall black fences of the security perimeter. The one thing on which both parties agree is that the involvement of the United States in making war in places like Syria has to continue until the threat of Daesh is removed forever from the dreams of our children.

Here, the Republicans are just a little more bloodthirsty about it, and they like to make jokes about reading people their Miranda rights rather than making war on them and killing them dead. But there's no reason to expect that the Democratic ticket will be changing course very radically, either. The U.S.A. is in this to win it.

However, as IBT reminds us, making war in a place is a marvelous environment for unfortunate coincidence.

Some eight families were reportedly wiped out in the IS-controlled village of Tokhar near Manbij on Tuesday (19 July), in what could be one of the deadliest bombings of civilians by coalition forces since the start of operations in the country. The Turkey-based Syrian Institute for Justice said it feared the death toll could be far higher as rescuers continued to pull bodies from the rubble. Photographs of the aftermath showed several half-buried children being retrieved. The US military confirmed it had conducted air strikes in the area and said it was investigating claims of civilian deaths. "If the information supporting the allegation is determined to be credible, we will then determine the next appropriate step," the statement said. It added that the US military takes "all measures during the targeting process to avoid or minimise civilian casualties". A second monitoring group, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, believed the air strikes were carried out in error after pilots mistook the civilians for IS fighters. It also reported a separate incident, on Sunday, in which six civilians in Manbij were killed by a coalition air strike, "including a woman with four of her children and an old man".

Once again, we point out that all of these people have parents and uncles and cousins and friends. I suspect that most of the parents and uncles and cousins and friends are not well-versed in the subtleties of military conflict resolution in a globalized age of stateless terrorism. All they know is that their loved ones were visited by a coldly anonymous death from above. To what aim are they likely to dedicate their lives?

Jesus, we have wandered, eyes open, into an endless briar patch over there and the only difference between the two parties is that one of them is more open in its desire to kill our way out of the briar patch.

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