re: UN: US Guilty Of War Crimes In Iran

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international law

There's no such thing.

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For better or worse, the US has entered that era. Our attitude in international affairs is:

"Don't like it? Who is going to stop us?"

Maybe it's always been that way, but it has been refreshingly honest for the Trump Administration to openly embrace that stance.

It's annoying now when the Administration pretends that international law applies to, say, the Strait of Hormuz.

Bump for IvoryBillMatt.

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Back in February, two Tomahawk missiles hit Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in the southern Iranian town of Minab on the opening day of the Iran war. The blasts killed more than 150 people, including at least 123 children.

Earlier reporting already pointed to outdated targeting data and raised questions about whether artificial intelligence had a role in the mix-up. And now, a Bloomberg investigation published Friday fills in more of the story, citing officials involved in an unreleased internal Pentagon review. Those officials said some Pentagon personnel knew within hours that the United States had hit the school, and they described a cascade of preventable failures that included an overreliance on an AI tool built by Palantir.

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Bump for IvoryBillMatt.

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Thanks, Bunk. That's what it seemed from the beginning. As with the 1988 USS Vincennes shoot down of the Iranian civilian airliner, why not put out a report quickly and own up to it?

Mistakes happen. The failure to admit mistakes starts to look fishy.

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There's no such thing.

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We know that our armed forces committed a few war crimes in WW2 and Vietnam. The response from our national people was a collective shrug of the shoulders.

The American people don't care much whether our armed forces follow the law of armed conflict. The American people believe in making War with no constraints and no rules and no rules of engagement - and no thought to International Law.

I would argue that the American people believe in "might makes right", without regard for any rules.

That's how I see it.