Originally published at: The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Images from the missile strike in southern Iran were more horrifying than any of the case studies Air Force combat veteran Wes J. Bryant had pored over in his mission to overhaul how the U.S. military safeguards civilian life. Parents wept over their children’s bodies. Crushed desks and…
MAGA strategy. A little domestic chaos will support initiation of martial law. A few hundred, maybe a few thousand, dead? It’s fascism! People die!
If only these people (US leaders) spent a little less time sucking their inflated bravado and a little more time considering the consequences we might not be the biggest terrorists in the world right now.
What would you expect from Trump and Hegseth, whose intellectual development never passed beyond the stage of fighting make-believe battles with toy soldiers? Those sets you can buy at the toy store don’t include civilians, so they might as well not exist.
It was bad enough that this horrible bombing might have been the result of carelessness or not updating DOD’s local knowledge, or even letting AI pick the targets.
But to learn that we had started to have plans in place to avoid disasters like this, but this Administration scrapped them because it’s unmanly to worry about killing innocent young girls, well, let Dylan say it:
Oh, but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Bury the rag deep in your face, for now’s the time for your tears.
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It’s been documented by former White(s Only) House officials that Dr. Cadet Toad-glans mit der Bone Spurs von Queens “regularly fantasized about attacking and killing unarmed civilians.”