Wow. The U.S. military and United Nations are known to disagree, but this is absurd.

Last Friday, the U.S. military said that an airstrike in Afghanistan killed five civilians. Buried amid coverage of the Democratic National Convention, some heads turned this week when a report by the U.N. and Afghanistan officials put the total at not five, but 90, including 60 children. But, as the Washington Post’s Ann Scott Tyson reports, a U.S. military review completed yesterday puts the total back at five.

The U.S. feels it was misled in ordering the airstrike and dutifully apologizes for the five civilian deaths. But how in the world can a country that’s been patrolled by the U.S. and NATO for more than six years now not be able to broadly agree on civilian casualty totals?.-MB

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