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They really might be entirely alone if they decide to put boots in Iran. The Kurds don't want to go round 4 (?) with being left holding the bag.
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Well sure. Why would the Kurds want to get screwed over and left hanging again? If the regime collapses I’m sure they’ll happily fight to carve out their territory, but why would they take the risk of kicking things off at the behest of an unreliable partner that cannot be trusted to pull them out of a bad spot?
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In a way it was both but not quite the way you put forward.
The targeting cycle for air strikes is a fairly exact process. The results are more than likely one of the following two situations:
1) a target close to the school was the intended target but there was a technical glitch (mechanical or data entry) that caused the bomb to go "off target;" or
2) the school was the target to be hit but an intelligence failure caused the targeting team to evaluate the school as still being a part of the adjacent base without knowing that it had been turned into a school.
From the material in the press to this point, my guess is that it will turn out to be the latter.
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Not just that girls school, but those bombs dropped on their universities too. Again the US and Israel are making the propaganda for them.
Consequences.
In a way it was both but not quite the way you put forward.
The targeting cycle for air strikes is a fairly exact process. The results are more than likely one of the following two situations:
1) a target close to the school was the intended target but there was a technical glitch (mechanical or data entry) that caused the bomb to go "off target;" or
2) the school was the target to be hit but an intelligence failure caused the targeting team to evaluate the school as still being a part of the adjacent base without knowing that it had been turned into a school.
From the material in the press to this point, my guess is that it will turn out to be the latter.
Mistakes happen in war. Even the Iranian people will understand that. It's the absolute lack of contrition and all the other messaging that routinely makes it sound like they are at war with the Iranian people not just the regime that is the problem.
Also, there's a disturbing pattern here where Trump disavows a certain target set and then Israel bombs it. Makes it look like Israel is the lead partner. Not the US.
The university bombed was part of their nuclear program.
Trump screwed them over last term. In Syria. And then let the Turks run them over. Why would they trust him now?
And of course once it leaked.....
