cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/33264
US military investigators have said it is likely its forces were responsible for a strike on a girls’ school in Iran that killed scores of children and has been condemned as a war crime, according to a report by Reuters.
The attack on the Minab girls’ school in southern Iran on Saturday is believed to have killed at least 165 people, mostly children under the age of 12.
The UN’s education agency, Unesco, said the attack was a “grave violation of humanitarian law”.
US war secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the military was investigating the incident. Investigators have not reached a final conclusion and it is still unclear what evidence contributed to their assessment, Reuters reported, citing two unnamed officials.
It was also unclear what type of munitions were used and who was responsible, the outlet said.
An investigation by news outlet Middle East Eye determined that the attack on the school was a “double tap” strike – where a target is hit a second time in order to kill rescuers who come to the aid of the injured.
“When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them,” a Red Crescent medic told the outlet, citing conversations he had with survivors.
“The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children. But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.”
The UK has joined the war on Iran – which is illegal because it was not approved by the UN or US congress – by allowing the use of its bases for strikes against the country.
Prime minister Keir Starmer has claimed the UK’s involvement is an act of self-defence, despite the fact the US and Israel started the war.
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I have to wonder if liberals started blaming democrats for their shortcomings if the party would actually change and become electable.
These deaths would not have occurred if Biden had put someone in charge of the DoJ willing to prosecute Trump for.... anything really.
See how easy this is?
I put most of the blame on Biden, but I also noticed one was unwilling to fundamentally address my points. Curiously, most of the people who complain about Democrats don't seem to be very engaged in the Democratic primaries. By all means, I hope said groups (btw I'm not "Liberal" unless Bernie and AOC and Mandani and Talarico are) engage heavily in these primaries and push out AIPAC and conservative Democrats just the same.
But at the end of the day, the point remains: (1) Binary outcome election. (2) Milquetoast vs. Pure Fascism. Anything less than voting Milquetoast was a +1 for Fascism and the death of these Iranian children. (Again, using the same logic as these groups used for Biden and Gaza). See how easy that was?
Now again:
Is there regret for not voting Harris? (hindsight 20/20 and also making the massive assumption this poll is as accurate as people actually voting -- lest we just use polls to vote instead of voting itself, right?). So far, I'm taking it as a no.
Are Uncommitted / Third Party / Couch-Sitters complicit in these deaths the same way complicity was drawn with Biden and Gaza by the logic of these same groups?
At the end of the day you're angry or upset or critical at the wrong people. Voter apathy is the issue at hand and milquetoastyness is the problem.
You would rather place blame on people voting FOR SOMETHING, than the party who has shit the bed so many times that the majority of Americans dont vote at all. Truly oblivious to the fact you're misplaced criticism might just be the straw to break the camels back on those people's engagement.
I'll take "milquetoastyness" over outright fascism any day. Would I love more progressive candidates across the board? Yes, absolutely! (By the way, are you engaged in your Democratic Primaries in your state right now?)
And so would any other sane, rational individual.
It's kind of like the 1 nazi at the table argument. If you're willing to sit out an election when literal nazis are running even if you don't identify as one, and don't absolutely love the alternative binary non-fascist choice, then you're basically still a nazi.
The idea that the Democrat Party aren't pro-Fascism abroad, is hilarious.
Good old, Obama was so cool with blowing up civilians that he go the criteria for "enemy combatant" changed to pretty much "any male" in order to keep claim that when weddings were blown up on his signed order, they were hitting "enemy combatants".
Americans voting for the "other murderers" party makes very little difference for the kids in the Middle East they inevitably murder.
Now this comment is hilarious and demonstrative of wide range of folly, not only of that particular history, but improper use of the term fascism. False equivalence fallacies aside, tell me:
Your entire approach to what I wrote is a perfect example of Democrat Party "Dialectics is more important than human lives" thinking - dissembling, whataboutism, technicalities, distraction whilst not at all addressing the point much less be willing to improve things.
"The United States has been at war or in armed conflict for 229 out of 249 years since its founding" which is a lot of Democrat Presidents and Congress Majorities.
Amazingly, your own examples of "war criminals" - Putin AND Xi - together are responsible for way fewer children murdered than Joe Biden alone, with just him giving Israel 2000 pound bombs (which the US Military itself - even after Obama changed the definition of "enemy combatant" to be pretty much "any male" so that his dronings of weddings in Afghanistan didn't look quite as murderous - refuses to use because their collateral damage is so massive) to use against targets in Gaza which is a urban environment, putting him ahead, just behind Netanyahu.
(Even fucking Putin whose who has been in power for decades is responsible for invading Ukraine hasn't managed to get anywhere near that child body-count).
Biden actively supported a Genocidal state with weapons designed to inflict maximum civilian casualties to use in an urban environment. The only way to be more despicable than that would be to personally murder the children himself.
The last US President who wasn't a child murdering war criminal was maybe Clinton and that was over 20 years ago.
Tribalist muppets like you who put party support above the lives of children are why the present day Democrat Party has so devolved from even a wealth-supporting neoliberal President like Clinton, that their last president was an active child mass murder supporter and the person the chose to field as a candidate replace him which was an child mass murder supporter herself.
That the Democrat Party leadership REFUSES to even move away from supporting child mass murder abroad even to attract votes from the Left in order to "Stop Trump" (as they so loudly claimed they wanted) says everything about their Morals and what's genuinely important for them, and that you in your posts here doggedly support them in NOT MOVING AN INCH FROM SAID POSITION instead blaming millions of people for not voting for somebody who wants to help mass murder children, says everything that needs to be said about your own moral character.
Is that a Yes, or a No.
I'm disappointed you couldn't follow simple instructions. This must be bad faith.
Looks like a swing and a miss on condemning Putin and Xi to me. I didn't think it was possible to flop a softball question worse than trump "condemning" the proudboys during the 2020 debate.
Interesting that you think that when a child mass murder supporter just orders others, if they don't obey it's "bad faith".
That autocratic amoral mindset definitely explains your belief that people should just accept that no matter how evil the Democrat Party leadership becomes people have an obligation to vote for them, as well as your total inability to understand that others would not unquestioningly support leaders who would do evil to such an extent.
Morally, you're the same as Trump, Putin, Xi and their supporters.
I pass your litmus test for engagement. You are kind of missing my point and talking past me though so you're not passing mine.
Turns out commenting on posts and being involved with the primaries are not mutually exclusive.