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I understand there was a military installation near the school. How is someone supposed to deal with that? War is not really an “exact science”

fhdkweig 7mo ago
There are schools located on US military bases, not just near. That doesn't make them viable targets. You better believe that if an attacker hit a school on a US base, the soldiers wouldn't forgive that so easily.
- thefounder 7mo ago
  Well that’s not very smart IMHO. To me they look like human shields. Shame on me as I was blaming Hamas for using residential compounds for military ops but it looks like everyone does it. I wouldn’t send my kid to a school on military base especially in times of imminent war. I label that gross negligence and even provocation.
  - fhdkweig 7mo ago
    The problem is that the soldier parents want their kids to live with them on the base. The alternative is they have their kids live in an orphanage somewhere else until they decide to retire, or soldiers just aren't allowed to have kids at all. Neither is very realistic, so there are schools on bases.
    - thefounder 7mo ago
      Orphanage ? What about a school 2 miles away from the military installation or in Iran's given case why don't they move their sh** at the edge of the city like the shopping malls do? It may be a bit inconvenient, I get that it's inconvenient but it's far from the orphanage story. Not to mention in case of war...should the kids be kept close to a military base? Military installations within residential areas just beg for civilian casualties. Is as simple as that. If you see a military base near you move out or ask them to move out.
  - iAMkenough 7mo ago
    Usually they serve military families, but at least in the United States those kids probably aren't any safer from getting killed in an off-base school given how common school shootings are now.
cr1895 7mo ago
For example: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-...
derelicta 7mo ago
"It's okay when White People do it!"
fhub 7mo ago
Targeting intel was apparently based off ~2013 satellite imagery. By 2016, satellite images show the school was separate and outside the fence. (From https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/06/middleeast/iran-minab-elementary-school-investigation-us-strike-intl https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/06/middleeast/iran-minab-ele...)
- thisislife2 7mo ago
  I don't believe that - in my opinion, the school was deliberately targeted because the students studying there were mostly the children of Iranian military officials. Iran's military (surprisingly) has behaved in a very restrained manner in the last 2 years against Israel (and US), possibly on the advise of Russia and China, and that is why Israel and US have not been able to galvanise much international support for their aggression against Iran. The deliberate assassination of the Ayatollah (a religious muslim leader, who was 87+ years and soon to be replaced by the Iranians themselves) and targeted slaughter of the children of Iranian military officials is meant to provoke Iranians and Shia muslims elsewhere to commit acts of terrorism against the US and Israel. Then international outrage can be whipped up by the western media and NATO can be bulldozed to join the war and send soldiers into Iran.
  - ms_menardi 7mo ago
    The children of soldiers are not legitimate military targets. > ... in my opinion, the school was deliberately targeted because the students studying there were mostly the children of Iranian military officials. ... Your opinion is wrong. There is no possibility of that being the justification for choosing a target. The American armed forces are too professional to do such a thing. Terror is not in our toolbox.
    - cindyllm 7mo ago
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    - happymellon 7mo ago
      > The American armed forces are too professional to do such a thing. Terror is not in our toolbox. I can't tell if you are being serious. This is literally what the US does.
pasttense01 7mo ago
In this case they were using very expensive munitions which go exactly where they were targeted to go; they were not using cheap, dump bombs which have a wide margin of error.
- thefounder 7mo ago
  It’s not only about the precision of the munition. When you put military installations in residential areas you get this kind of result regardless of how precise the weapons are. The maps could be outdated, intelligence may be flawed etc. In a hot war collateral casualties are secondary to the military objective. You try to avoid civilian deaths but that should be on best effort basis.

fhdkweig 7mo ago

There are schools located on US military bases, not just near. That doesn't make them viable targets. You better believe that if an attacker hit a school on a US base, the soldiers wouldn't forgive that so easily.

thefounder 7mo ago
Well that’s not very smart IMHO. To me they look like human shields. Shame on me as I was blaming Hamas for using residential compounds for military ops but it looks like everyone does it. I wouldn’t send my kid to a school on military base especially in times of imminent war. I label that gross negligence and even provocation.
- fhdkweig 7mo ago
  The problem is that the soldier parents want their kids to live with them on the base. The alternative is they have their kids live in an orphanage somewhere else until they decide to retire, or soldiers just aren't allowed to have kids at all. Neither is very realistic, so there are schools on bases.
  - thefounder 7mo ago
    Orphanage ? What about a school 2 miles away from the military installation or in Iran's given case why don't they move their sh** at the edge of the city like the shopping malls do? It may be a bit inconvenient, I get that it's inconvenient but it's far from the orphanage story. Not to mention in case of war...should the kids be kept close to a military base? Military installations within residential areas just beg for civilian casualties. Is as simple as that. If you see a military base near you move out or ask them to move out.
- iAMkenough 7mo ago
  Usually they serve military families, but at least in the United States those kids probably aren't any safer from getting killed in an off-base school given how common school shootings are now.

cr1895 7mo ago

For example: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-...

derelicta 7mo ago

"It's okay when White People do it!"

fhub 7mo ago

Targeting intel was apparently based off ~2013 satellite imagery. By 2016, satellite images show the school was separate and outside the fence. (From https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/06/middleeast/iran-minab-elementary-school-investigation-us-strike-intl https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/06/middleeast/iran-minab-ele...)

thisislife2 7mo ago
I don't believe that - in my opinion, the school was deliberately targeted because the students studying there were mostly the children of Iranian military officials. Iran's military (surprisingly) has behaved in a very restrained manner in the last 2 years against Israel (and US), possibly on the advise of Russia and China, and that is why Israel and US have not been able to galvanise much international support for their aggression against Iran. The deliberate assassination of the Ayatollah (a religious muslim leader, who was 87+ years and soon to be replaced by the Iranians themselves) and targeted slaughter of the children of Iranian military officials is meant to provoke Iranians and Shia muslims elsewhere to commit acts of terrorism against the US and Israel. Then international outrage can be whipped up by the western media and NATO can be bulldozed to join the war and send soldiers into Iran.
- ms_menardi 7mo ago
  The children of soldiers are not legitimate military targets. > ... in my opinion, the school was deliberately targeted because the students studying there were mostly the children of Iranian military officials. ... Your opinion is wrong. There is no possibility of that being the justification for choosing a target. The American armed forces are too professional to do such a thing. Terror is not in our toolbox.
  - cindyllm 7mo ago
    [dead]
  - happymellon 7mo ago
    > The American armed forces are too professional to do such a thing. Terror is not in our toolbox. I can't tell if you are being serious. This is literally what the US does.

pasttense01 7mo ago

In this case they were using very expensive munitions which go exactly where they were targeted to go; they were not using cheap, dump bombs which have a wide margin of error.

thefounder 7mo ago
It’s not only about the precision of the munition. When you put military installations in residential areas you get this kind of result regardless of how precise the weapons are. The maps could be outdated, intelligence may be flawed etc. In a hot war collateral casualties are secondary to the military objective. You try to avoid civilian deaths but that should be on best effort basis.