Trump says it was Iran that hit the school
I am not yet coming to any definitive conclusions on the strike that killed the schoolgirls in Iran. There is mutually conflicting information, and we have seen these types of tragedies get weaponized and propagandized.
If it was the result of an American strike, I have no doubt it was not deliberate. From what I understand, the school was adjacent to an IRGC “target”. It is possible it was struck by accident, or tangentially as part of an attack on an IRGC target (setting aside arguments that Iran would have placed a girls school adjacent to an IRGC establishment for these specific reasons, or that any strike on an IRGC target should not have occurred if there was a school in the vicinity).
It is also possible it was struck by an errant Iranian missile.
The problem with Trump’s answer - or more specifically from the follow-up answer from Hegseth, is that Hegseth’s answer “we’re certainly investigating” undermines Trump’s statement.
I am not one of those who believes the US deliberately targets children.
Civilian death, and the death of children, is the inevitable consequence of these wars.
How many tens of thousands of innocent children were killed in Iraq?
And how heinously has Madeleine Albright’s assertion that “it was worth it” aged…
These were our very concerns with this type of war.