Tom Englehardt: Four wedding parties have been blown away by U.S. air power in Iraq and Afghanistan since the end of 2001, and there was probably at least one more. Back in May 2002, it was claimed that U.S. helicopters wiped out a wedding party in the eastern Afghan province of Khost, killing 10 and wounding many more. Yet when the latest wedding party went down, no reporter seems even to have recalled our past history of wedding-party obliteration.
