U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. DOJ Scrapped It (propublica.org)

dashzebra 34 minutes ago

> The death toll from the attack on an elementary school in Minab climbed past 165, most of them under age 12, with nearly 100 others wounded, according to Iranian health officials.

Aside from the obvious horrifyng aspect of this, that's also a lot of people who are going to remember this sorely. Pretty sure none of this is going to be beneficial to the future of anyone involved, on both sides.

C'mon, only 2 years and 9.5 months to go...

Dig1t 7 hours ago

They did a double tap strike on a girls school.

i.e. they blew up a school with kids in it, then when people went in to try and rescue the survivors they struck the school again to kill the rescuers.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/3/12/who-bombed-the-...

Our leadership obviously does not care at all about civilian lives.

wobblyasp 10 hours ago

The DoD has vocally stated their intent to maximize death. They have explicit stated their disgust for the rules of engagement.

srean 2 hours ago

This sort of moral decline bites you in the back years later.

The same is going on in Israel - covering up of war crimes, covering of sexual and other abuse of prisoners

BenGosub 11 minutes ago

They don't even try to cover it anymore.

toofy 6 hours ago

let us not forget they changed the name to the department of war.

tekla 24 minutes ago

No they didn't. Stop perpetuating this lie. Is the XO stupid? Yes. That doesn't make it ok to lie about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-...

snthpy 4 hours ago

Indeed. I'm curious how long before DHS becomes the Department of Surveillance?

bitfilped 32 minutes ago

About -2 years ago

gruez 9 hours ago

>The DoD has vocally stated their intent to maximize death.

Source?

wavemode 7 hours ago

NY Times article on the rhetoric: https://archive.ph/In52a

quickthrowman 46 minutes ago

Nobody could’ve predicted that putting an abusive alcoholic in charge of the DoD would lead to this. Oh wait, plenty of people predicted this.

There are no leaders in the current administration, only self-absorbed sycophants.

remarkEon 9 hours ago

>They have explicit stated their disgust for the rules of engagement.

Which ones? The ones from the GWOT? Those rules of "engagement"?

glass1122 12 hours ago

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