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1. ReptileMan · 1789646695 · focus · HN ↗

   ECHR, UN and ECJ will find any and everything as crime against humanity so it is best to ignore them and make your own judgement. It is like asking ADL if something is antisemitism or SPLC if something is racism - the answer will always be yes, so why bother.

   1. Zealotux · 1789650010 · focus · HN ↗

      Oh ok, so then how do you qualify this event? As whoopsie? A misclick?
   2. iAMkenough · 1789650487 · focus · HN ↗

      Okay. My own judgement is targeting strikes on an elementary school full of hundreds of school children is a war crime.

      Do you not want to see accountability for that? Are you not pro-life?

      1. ReptileMan · 1789659782 · focus · HN ↗

         Of course I want to see accountability. Two valuable and expensive ammunitions were wasted and pilots were exposed to unnecessary risk due to sloppy intelligence work. Also there should be punishment for the civilian deaths I guess. But unless the school was deliberately targeted because it was a school, double taping on military barracks that are attached to a military base shouldn't be looked as a war crime. USG is under no obligation to have up to date information.

         >Following the United States and Israeli attacks on 28 February, the mission found reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects.

         The attacks were obviously not indiscriminate. Indiscriminate is covering an area with napalm and throwing a match.

         1. iAMkenough · 1789660766 · focus · HN ↗

            It was clearly a school and deliberately targeted.

            You caring more about munitions than the lives of innocent children says a lot about who you are.

         2. mrguyorama · 1789682422 · focus · HN ↗

            >USG is under no obligation to have up to date information.

            Why not? This is not the perspective of the various international agreements the US has signed about war. Knowing what you are shooting is in fact an obligation.

            Hell, knowing what you are shooting is an obligation of deer hunters in my state. If you shoot someone because you thought they were a deer, you are in trouble even if they weren't wearing an orange vest.

            The reason this obligation exists is because you always have the option to not shoot. If you do not know accurate info about what you are shooting at, you are supposed to not shoot at it.

   3. rbanffy · 1789652545 · focus · HN ↗

      > ECHR, UN and ECJ will find any and everything as crime against humanity

      That doesn't make them automatically wrong. This is clearly a crime against humanity.

      > It is like asking ADL if something is antisemitism

      There is a huge difference between hating Jews and condemning the actions of the Israeli government in occupied Palestine and the support it has from other countries.

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