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People perpetually forget that the order to fire was issued before Namir peeked around the corner to take photos of the humvees. We can go on and on about what

People perpetually forget that the order to fire was issued before Namir peeked around the corner to take photos of the humvees. We can go on and on about what the real war crime was but for my money it's that this incident was not unusual. We talk about it a lot because some westerners cared about two people who were killed, but these things happened over and over and over and over and over. Maybe someone wants to go litigate those one by one. Or they can zoom out and see that this lax standard for killing people will inevitably lead to many of these incidents, and that going forward with the policy anyway is a war crime reminiscent of free-fire zones in Vietnam.

Johnjonjoan 6y ago
You literally said the only thought process that went towards the order to fire was that they were military age males. As I pointed out this was not the case and is still not the case irrespective of if he peeked the corner. I'm genuinely sorry Namir died and it shouldn't have happened but he knew that he was putting his life at risk let's be honest. On the other hand the passers by in the van who tried to take the wounded to the hospital who also were obliterated were just good Samaritans and I really think you should at least acknowledge them when talking about what happened to Namir as a war crime.