Latif Nasser

Because the thing that Pershing got in World War I, it came with a catch.

And that is that there's a combat exclusion.

In case you just walked in, that's Gregory Johnson.

And what he means is that this law, basically what it said is that we'll pay your claims if it didn't happen on the field of battle and it wasn't a combat situation.

If it was combat and it was on the field of battle, then tough luck.

That's just war.

So if U.S.

soldiers were driving to a fight...

and they ran their car into somebody and they damaged that car or killed that person, those people would not be able to get compensation.

Whereas if the U.S.

soldiers were driving to a bar and got in an accident, they would be able to get compensation.

But the problem is, once we get into these counterinsurgency wars, civilians are suddenly in the middle of the fray.

This is, in a way, the story of modern warfare.

President Karzai says he's delivering his final warning to the U.S.

after a U.S.

airstrike accidentally killed more than a dozen mothers and children.

By the time we get to Afghanistan and Iraq, the fighting is happening in cities.

So there's no difference really between the battlefield and where people live.

And so the line between what's combat related and what's not combat related, it starts to get blurry.

People started lining up outside of these saying, my family has been harmed.