
Here’s that 60 Minutes piece to which Karen was referring.
The lead-in to the story was an incident in which U.S. forces, responding to a single rocket launched at their base which missed the base entirely and caused no casualties, rained mortar fire down on a nearby village where two men with AK-47’s allegedly fled after the failed rocket attack. After about an hour of bombarding the village with mortars, they called in an air strike that dropped two (count ‘em) one-ton bombs on the village, killing lots of people but not the alleged Taliban they were after.
That leads into this:
“During the Russian invasion we haven