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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since the troll poster has requested more information from the WSJ, I'm happy to oblige with a gift link.  There's a very clear satellite picture showing just how close the school is to the base.  Anyone claiming that this school wasn't very much adjacent to the military base - and previously a part of it - is nutty.

The school is located on the edge of a compound linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an elite branch of Iran’s armed forces, according to an analysis of images by The Wall Street Journal. There are indications the school building had previously been used as an IRGC headquarters, the official said.

The Journal analysis of satellite and open-source images shows the building was next to, and possibly part of, a compound linked to the IRGC. Farzin Nadimi, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute specializing in Iran’s military, said visual clues such as the size, number and arrangement of structures support the assessment that the site was a base, though there was little to suggest to him that it was an important one.

Google Maps identifies one building as a “cultural complex” of the IRGC, where young members play sports and train, Nadimi said. The compound also has a medical facility. A photograph pinned to the location on Google Maps shows a sign that says, “Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy Medical Command.”

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-us-school-strike-07d8ffac?st=o8z38t&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink[/quote]

Being "close to" a base is no excuse for bombing a school.  No one would be saying "oh that's ok, it's understandable they killed my kid" if their kid was killed because they attended one of the 150 DoED schools co-located on a military base.[/quote]

If it was the second day of bombing, you'd better believe American parents wouldn't be sending their kids to school [b]anywhere[/b], much less to a school co-located on a military base.  But do keep repeating yourself over and over and over...[/quote]
You’re terrible. We all had to go back to school and work on 9/12. War doesn’t make us hide under tunnels like Israelis can [/quote]

+1  No one expects the military to bomb elementary schools.  Stop trying to justify this incident.[/quote]

No one expected the [i]US military[/i] to bomb elementary schools.  And, they wouldn't have, but for Hegseth and Trump and their derangement over the "queering of the military" or whatever the F else imaginary grievance du jour that makes them think they need to tear up longstanding rules of engagement, ignore Geneva Conventions, upend JAG corps etc.

So that's one f'ed up thing going on.  And it's new.  But we Americans hope to throw those m-f-ers out and put them on trial.   Wish Iran could say the same.

But it's pretty much a given for Russia to do that to Ukrainian schools.  Along with Iran and Hezbollah etc.  They've bombed schools, hospitals and civilian targets with impunity.  And without accountability to the international community, what's the point of even expecting accountability?  We can't have a UN Security Council that gives their buddies a pass for war crimes, whether it's Israel, or whether it's Iran, Russia, China or anyone else - even the US.  Currently those institutions have shown themselves to be impotent, pointless and useless.  And it sucks.

None of it's justifiable or excusable, nobody should get a pass - even those who think they deserve some kind of morality pass because they hate the US and Israel. And, along with it, the bad-faith "negotiations" that are straight up delusional.  It's the perfect set-up to lead nations into wars.  Our whole global community system is broken.[/quote]

Why wouldn't you expect the US military to attack a school? The were reported strikes in schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Why should Iran be any exception [/quote]

I just asked AI to give a synthesis in response to your accusation - the response is that accidents happen, but to ascribe intentionality and evil intent or to claim it's a widespread and frequent phenomenon to be expected significantly misses the mark:

[quote]Short answer: no—there is not evidence of widespread, independently corroborated cases where the U.S. military knowingly and deliberately attacked schools as schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, or Yemen. What does exist is a grim record of schools being hit, sometimes with very high civilian casualties, in strikes the U.S. has variously described as mistakes, bad intelligence, misidentification, or collateral damage near what it claimed were legitimate military targets.

In all of those theaters, you can find documented incidents where school buildings, madrassas, or school buses were struck—often investigated by the UN, human‑rights groups, or journalists. In some cases, those investigations concluded the U.S. failed to take sufficient precautions, used flawed intelligence, or acted with reckless disregard for civilian life. But that is still legally and factually different from proven, intentional targeting of a known school as a school. There is no established pattern—backed by independent investigations—that the U.S. ran a campaign of deliberately attacking schools knowing they were purely civilian educational facilities.[/quote]

No established pattern of deliberate targeting of schools.  That's based on broad independent investigations by the UN and human rights groups and journalists.

The US conducted tens of thousands of airstrikes in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen.  Comparatively, the numbers of claimed schools that were hit are barely double digit, out of tens of thousands of airstrikes.  That's a 0.1% error rate which is significantly lower than any military in history.  Is it excusable?  No.  Could it be better?  Yes.  But for any critic also engaged in warfare to claim some kind of moral superiority is an absolute farce.  [/quote]

It's not that the US deliberately hits schools.  It's that they don't care if they do. Why would they? Have they ever been held accountable for faulty targeting? No.  The world gets barely more than a shrug.  So why would they do painstaking quality checks on their intelligence if faulty targeting is no one's business?[/quote]

Does Iran care?  Does Russia?  No.  Have they ever even admitted wrongdoing or shown an ounce of remorse or regret?  No.

Yet those are the exact countries that people like you who hold up as your champions and ideals as you nod at each other while nattering on complaining about western colonialism, American global hegemony and so on.  That's not whataboutism.  That's confronting you on your hypocrisy and double standards.[/quote]

"Why are you looking at me? Go look at that other guy!"[/quote]

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