SvennoJ said:
Zkuq said:
It's still a mistake if the mistake happens in determining the target - they hit where they intended to but not what they intended to. Regarding the double tap, based on what I could find quickly, it sounds like it was struck again so soon that the US didn't necessarily have enough information to realize it wasn't a military target after all. Please do correct me if I'm wrong though, because it was a fairly quick check. Regarding other schools and hospital, I'd have to know more about them. I'm inclined to think the US is averse to strike them unless they think they have 'valid' targets as well. As far as I know (and I could be wrong), striking them (or at least hospitals) is illegal anyway, so it's not any better regardless of whether there are so-called valid targets in them, but at least it's still probably not bombing them to terrorize the populace. It's still very bad but not as bad as it could be. I just don't think the US has a motive to terrorize the general populace. The US wants a regime change, and they've shown signs of wanting the people of Iran to overthrow the regime. I'm sure the US is being reckless in their strikes as always, which I really dislike, but I have no reason to believe they're striking civilian targets just because. And to be clear, I don't support the attacks against Iran, I think they're just plain wrong and should never have happened. |
What about hitting the oil depot and desalination plant in Iran? Causing massive health issues for the general population as well as starving them from water. https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v2/rule54
Plus a mistake is still a crime under IHL. Intentional or not, failure to distinguish, proportionality, non combatents
https://casebook.icrc.org/law/principle-distinction
It was a pre-emptive strike, by definition there were no combatants yet, The entire strike was illegal.
Other schools and hospitals are mostly hit from nearby explosions with 2,000 pound bombs, those that Biden deemed illegal to use in Gaza and the only ones he blocked shipments to Israel for. Yet the oil depot was not a mistake or 'collateral' damage.
Besides being a dual-use item, it's also a huge ecological disaster.
Hitting desalination plants is pure evil.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/world/middleeast/desalination-plants-iran-bahrain.html |
Hey, I'm only trying to differentiate between different degrees of terrible. It's all still terrible but being terrible because you want to cause suffering and being terrible because you don't care about collateral damage are different degrees of bad to me, especially because the former probably leads to even more bad stuff happening. Like I said, I'm in no way in favour of this war and think it's terrible anyway.
The desalination plant thing sounds like it might go in the same category as 'valid' targets in a hospital, i.e. not terrorizing the populace per se but a terrible thing to do anyway.
