Arnon Grunberg

100 feet

Frozen bread rolls

Two Special Forces soldiers are charged with killing an unarmed Afghan man.
The man was killed after Afghan Border Police officers surrounded his house.
The Special Forces soldiers were 100 feet away. Paul Zielbauer writes in the NY Times :”At the home, the police had to gesture to communicate with Special Forces soldiers because the police had accidentally locked their radios and car keys in their vehicles.”

I remember Dutch military personnel telling me that the soldiers in Deh Rawood received ten thousand frozen bread rolls.
The bread rolls had to be thrown away, because the machines to unfreeze the rolls had not arrived yet.

Sometimes unprofessional behavior is causing waste; sometimes it causes collateral damage.