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US empire will never admit any wrongdoing: Analyst

Sunday, 01 May 2016 2:14 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 01 May 2016 7:14 PM ]

“[The US] is an empire, and empire can never admit any wrongdoing,” Dean Henderson says.

An American geopolitical commentator says the United Sates is an empire, adding that empires never admit any wrongdoing; they always blame others.

Dean Henderson, an author and columnist at Veterans Today, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday, after a US military investigation concluded that American forces did not commit any war crimes by conducting a deadly attack on an Afghan hospital that was run by Doctors Without Borders.

On October 3, 2015, a US gunship bombed the hospital in the Afghan northern city of Kunduz for more than an hour, killing 42 people, and injuring 37 others.

"The investigation concluded that certain personnel failed to comply with the rules of engagement and the law of armed conflict, however, the investigation did not conclude that these failures amounted to a war crime," General Joseph Votel, commander of US Central Command, said in a media briefing on Friday.

The general, who headed US Special Operations Command at the time, argued that the attack did not amount to a war crime because none of the service members were aware that they were striking a hospital.

The report added that fatigue and "high operational tempo" also contributed to the tragic incident. The US military took disciplinary action against 16 servicemen in relation to the airstrike.

Commenting on the development, Henderson said, “It is very brutal for the US to minimize [the importance of this incident] and say, ‘Well, [it was a] technical error, human error, sorry.’ No big shots, no heads are going to roll, no big investigation, nothing.

“It just shows that the state of the United Sates -- just how lame it is. It is an empire, and empire can never admit any wrongdoing. It always just blames somebody else,” he stated.

Doctors Without Borders said in a statement Friday that the punishments were inadequate and it would like to see an "independent and impartial" investigation.

According to the Geneva-based medical charity, the incident "constitutes a war crime," and has demanded an international investigation, but none has been undertaken.

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