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“No Stupid Rules Of Engagement”

I guess we know what he means by that:

The Feb. 28 strike that hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the United States and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility.

But a body of evidence assembled by The New York Times — including newly released satellite imagery, social media posts and verified videos — indicates the school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on an adjacent naval base operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

And official statements that U.S. forces were attacking naval targets near the Strait of Hormuz, where the I.R.G.C. base is located, suggest they were most likely to have carried out the strike. […]

The elementary school is in the small southern town of Minab, more than 600 miles from Tehran but near the critical waterway of the Strait of Hormuz. Since Saturday is the start of the Iranian workweek, children and teachers were in class at the time of the strike, health officials and Iranian state media said.

No biggie.

It reminds me of the comment by former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs who defended the targeted killing of American Anway Awlaki by saying, “he should have had a more responsible father.” If those little Iranian kids didn’t want to be killed they should have had the good sense to be born American and live in the United States. Of course, that’s no guarantee that Trump’s administration won’t kill them too but it may be slightly less likely.

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