The family were killed during a US airstrike in Somalia. According to a Guardian investigation, at least 12 civilians, including eight children, died during the attack.

It is the deadliest US operation for civilians in Somalia during either Trump administration. The US had not killed so many innocent people in a single incident in the east African country for 18 years. The previous highest confirmed toll was the bloody, botched US military operation in the capital, Mogadishu, that became known as the 1993 Black Hawk Down incident.

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    Well, in all fairness, Kissinger got one first, so by the time Obama got one it was already pretty obvious that the Nobel Peace Prize was no prize for Peace.

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        It’s only insane if one still believes that the people in charge of prestigious institutions in the West are honorable and honest rather than posh grifters who will do whatever it takes to get money and influence if they think they can get away with it.

        There was maybe a time where Honor was celebrated and valued as one of if not the top human quality, but now is not that time, now is the “Greed is good time” when the greatest measure of the quality of a person is how wealthy they are and most people naturally respond to what the society around them incentivizes them to do.