Just as Dead

Al-Qaeda captured a pair of Westerners. They were taken hostage but unlike so many other innocents caught by Wahhabi terrorists, they were not paraded to an execution ground. They were not summarily beheaded. They were not brutally tortured in public for the amusement of Sunni fanatics. They were not dowsed with gasoline and burned alive in cages. They were not released by the captors. They were not rescued. American and Western intelligence was so bad that US forces were not aware the hapless American and luckless Italian were even being held at a terror camp America was determined to attack. The US launched a strike that tragically left two innocent "infidels" dead. In the fog of war, some mistakes are inevitable, but that in no way mitigates the pain of families whose loved ones died not at the hands of mad jihadists, but due to friendly fire.