Officials in New Delhi say that an Iranian warship that was sunk by a U.S. submarine near Sri Lanka had participated in naval exercises hosted by India before heading out into international waters in the Indian Ocean on its way home.
It seems to be a tragic case of incorrect intel that lead to the school in Minab being targeted. I hope the US will take responsibility for it and improve procedures, this is not acceptable.
Carpet bombing is a way to discredit the attacks to indiscriminately target civilians. This is not the case. Yes, civilians who are in the wrong place at the wrong time sadly get caught in the cross fire, and sometimes intel is wrong. But the attacks so far have not proven to deliberately target civilians.
Are you arguing semantics over the use of “carpet bombing”? Because it was definitely bombed.
https://apnews.com/video/smoke-rises-after-airstrikes-in-various-parts-of-irans-capital-tehran-416f610772db4db988087a2244548e8f
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/iran-us-israel-missiles-photos-tehran-images-66669302c5fee9a978effe7c81775a62
Bombed, yes. Carpet bombed, no.
Which means they were targeted, which is somehow so much worse.
… so they precision struck those targets then?
Your problem with Ryan Grim is he didn’t paint a bad enough picture?
It seems to be a tragic case of incorrect intel that lead to the school in Minab being targeted. I hope the US will take responsibility for it and improve procedures, this is not acceptable.
Carpet bombing is a way to discredit the attacks to indiscriminately target civilians. This is not the case. Yes, civilians who are in the wrong place at the wrong time sadly get caught in the cross fire, and sometimes intel is wrong. But the attacks so far have not proven to deliberately target civilians.
Fair enough.