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Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds

354 points · 307 comments · hebelehubele

Wildgoose · 1789657415 · focus · HN ↗
Seeing as it was a "double tap" it was clearly a deliberate target. Bomb the school, wait until officers from the nearby base with kids at the school arrive to try and rescue their daughters and hit it again. Clearly a war crime, possibly using Israeli targeting information, which clouds which State is ultimately responsible.
1. hodder · 1789659109 · focus · HN ↗
  Highly unlikely an entire chain of military personnel knew it was a school and was like, "yeah get em good, and lets see when they come scrambling in for their kids corpses".
  Do you hear yourself? Have you ever in your life met someone this sadistic? It was definitely a mistake. One might argue criminal negligence, but there is no way everyone in the loop here is just pure evil. That just isn't how people think in North America. It is unfathomable that a team of US military (people with families of their own no doubt), would all nod along and agree with your contention.
  1. MSFT_Edging · 1789659742 · focus · HN ↗
    > It is unfathomable that a team of US military (people with families of their own no doubt), would all nod along and agree with your contention.
    The Vietnam and Korean wars would like to have a word.
    Your belief that the US military is guided by any kind of moral or ethical line is naïve at best.
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre
    <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23427726" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23427726
    WarmWash · 1789660089 · focus · HN ↗
    If the US military was unethical, it wouldn't have lost in Afghanistan.
    The problem is fighting unethical enemies, because they do shit like use ambulances as troop transport, have soldiers dress the same as civilians, and given any kid old enough to shoot a rifle.
    To your post more specifically, is there is no one holding these unethical enemies responsible. There are no history books, or journalists, or wikipedia articles about the insane shit they do.
    The Taliban has a base where they truck in young boys to "service" the officers and it's lost to time. The US has a single ethics catastrophe, and they are held up for it for decades...
    surgical_fire · 1789660478 · focus · HN ↗
    > If the US military was unethical, it wouldn't have lost in Afghanistan
    You can be unethical and still profoundly incompetent.
    WarmWash · 1789660651 · focus · HN ↗
    Smoking out villages and shooting everything that moves with cutting edge weaponry doesn't require much competence.
    text0404 · 1789661081 · focus · HN ↗
    Which is why the US famously won the Vietnam war...
    WarmWash · 1789661873 · focus · HN ↗
    If that was the case the My Lai Massacre would be meaningless, because the entire war would have been that.
    jackie293746 · 1789675915 · focus · HN ↗
    The entire war was that. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange

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