Remember when, during his campaign, Obama proclaimed that the U.S. is "just air-raiding villages and killing civilians" in Afghanistan?

Well, this was in the news this past weekend:

KABUL (AFP) — A US and Afghan investigation confirmed Saturday that "a number of civilians" were killed in clashes with Taliban this week although President Hamid Karzai charged that up to 130 died in US air strikes.

In its first statement after the battle in the southern province of Farah Monday and Tuesday, the joint investigation team said it was unable to give firmer figures because all the dead had been buried, some in mass graves.

The statement also did not make clear if the dead were killed in air strikes or ground fighting centred on two villages in the district of Bala Buluk.

Obviously, I don't share the disgusting view expressed by Obama in the fall. I see civilian casualties as an inevitable evil in a moral war (particularly one against those who use them as human shields), and I know for a fact that our troops are doing best to avoid such casualties.

However I would like, for a moment, to apply Obama's own perspective to him as commander-in-chief, and hope to receive a response. I doubt I will.