WASHINGTON – As Canada’s Parliament prepares to vote this week on expanding military involvement in the Middle East, the U.S. political system has already moved on to the next difficult conversation – about civilian casualties. Multiple anecdotes about deaths during coalition airstrikes in Syria and Iraq have forced the White House to address the possibility that its mission might produce unintended casualties. It has already stated that this conflict doesn’t fall under guidelines on civilian casualties established last year for drone strikes. President Barack Obama announced in May 2013 that he’d be haunted by civilian deaths for the rest...
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