According to polls most Americans are indifferent to the carnage that we inflict around the world.

Right now the target of that carnage is Raqqa.



At least 100 civilians have been killed over the past 48 hours by US-led air attacks targeting fighters in Raqqa, the de-facto capital of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) in Syria.

Residents told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that at least 100 civilians had been killed since Sunday, with 55 civilians killed in the eastern neighbourhoods of Bedou and al-Sukhani on Monday.

Meanwhile, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) put Monday's death toll at 42, including 19 children and 12 women, and said 27 were killed on Sunday - a two-day total of 69 people.

The last two days are just the peak of what was already a really bad week.

On Aug 20, 40 civilians were killed in US-led coalition airstrikes on #ISIS held #Raqqa /On Aug 21, 32 were killedhttps://t.co/WZ4HVkhqCt — SaadAbedine (@SaadAbedine) August 22, 2017

More than 170 civilians have been killed by U.S.-led strikes on Islamic State in Raqqa city in the past week, a spike in casualties since an offensive to oust the militants began more than two months ago, a war monitor and sources said.

Things were bad enough under Obama, but then Trump loosened the rules further.

We killed so many civilians in the recent the Battle of Mosul, that some are talking about war crimes.

Our minimum estimate of civilians likely killed by Coalition since 2014 is now 5,117 - with 55% of deaths occuring under Trump's leadership pic.twitter.com/H8S5Ihwuzb — Airwars (@airwars) August 22, 2017

Yet Americans will still wonder "why they hate us?" It must be because of our freedom. Yeh, that's the ticket.