Looks like a sound tactical move to me. Look, when you get so full of yourself you think you're entitled to occupy foreign lands to control their govts and your own corporate globalist's access to their markets and resources, one should expect pushback.
No, that is not approval, jussayin'. Keep on dronin' and bombing, we're gonna be there forever now.
They would have killed them anyway. They're Muslims.
It wasn't so long ago WE did exactly that with our war dogs. They were classified as "equipment" and killed when they were no longer able to work. When our soldiers had to leave Vietnam, they were forced to leave the dogs behind ("equipment") and you can guess what happened to the dogs and how it broke the handlers hearts. They fought long and hard to have the rules changed, to allow the dogs to be recognized for their valor, and eventually - after far too long - to have a monument raised to the war dogs. It's only very recently that these dogs are given the long term care, honor and recognition they deserve and it was against considerable resistance from the government and the military establishment.
These dogs should NOT have been left when the contract was broken. Why were they abandoned?