Civilians have been killed for years due to attacks like this one, and hindsight is always right on target., yes? The General can and should talk to his counterpart to assuage his or her fear of a rogue attackAs someone still working in the military I can tell you it does NOT happen....unless someone at the 'top' overrides procedures and safety protocols.
1 person does NOT make the decision to fire a Hellfire missile into a vehicle containing children. The news reported that the CIA tried to call off the strike - that means multiple military entities were monitoring, analyzing, and attempting to identify who was in the vehicle. Military Ops, Military Intel, the Drone Pilot....and since the CIA said it tried to stop the strike that means multiple people inside the CIA was watching the drone footage and attempting to identify who was in the vehicle - and ended up believing (correctly) there were kids in the car.
President 'Wrong-About-Every-Foreign-Decision-He-Has-Ever-Made', who completely f*ed up every decision about the withdrawal from Afghanistan and knew he was already catching hell for getting 13 US servicemen and women killed and was about to leave Americans behind, who was scaed to death of another terrorist bombing that would kill more Americans, needed a 'win' desperately....so he, Austin, or General 'Righteous Strike' Milley gave the call to strike the vehicle without definitive confirmation of who was in the car.
At the bottom of the 'kill chain' is a group whose entire job is to make 100% that striking a target is of greater need than the risk of killing civilians. Included in this group is a JAG who has a hammer on the call to strike, making sure by law everything goes down legally. THEY would never have made this call to strike. It had to come from above, from the top, meaning either the CENTCOM Commander (McKenzie), the Chairman of the JCS (Milley), the Sect of Defense (Austin), or Biden's handlers.
All 4 of these people, and Psaki, have been declaring as loud as they can that their 'Over The Horizon Strike Capability' (the ability to strike from another country with no boots on the ground in the country you're going to conduct a strike) has been proven to be a huge success......when the strike that just killed 10 innocent people, to include 7 kids, showed the exact opposite. It was a disaster.
by an unhinged government official who is behaving in an obtuse manner like we have now.