Progressive Politics

So, there were restrictions on the types of weapons used in areas civilians were located; and he explains how him and other troops circumvented that to use more explosive weapons without command knowing.

Like, this is bad on its own. I don't know why people have to pretend it's him talking about literally targeting civilians.

I think Israel has broken people's brains. We've all spent years having to deal will evidence and footage of the worst possible crimes and our governments have done nothing about it. So, when something like this comes up, that is bad is in its own right, seems so mute in comparison. So we have to infer intent and even worse circumstances in order for it to feel relevant.

Thank you for the source. I did actually read this previously. But, it was so far away from the initial comment that I had to assume I missed another comment about it somewhere.

I really wish we could go back to a world where a fair reading of this comment was condemned as a war crime (as it should be) without having to embellish and infer even worse narratives around it.

Edit: I actually read the full comment and not just your screenshot. I think your screenshot was missing some parts still. There is an archive of all of them. Easily found via Google. The start of the comment talks about his team being restricted on the munition types they were using to hit targets they were assigned. He never says or implies they were targeting anything other than what they were told to.

Again, that's not an excuse. But I think people like to believe our military maintains it's power by being filled with evil child killers. When, our military maintains it's loyalty of its troops by decentralizing it's acts of violence. Making sure all of its troops rarely feel any personal connection to the lives they are taking.