Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by throwaway946513 1683 days ago
I'd reckon that the 'war crime' of a lack of a uniform is lower on the scale than a drone strike on a civilian aide to the U.S. during the withdrawal from said State.
1 comments

Nope that drone strike only happened because of the lack of uniform and clear insignia. If they didn't use that tactic the strike would never have happened.
"happened because of the lack of uniform"

Following interviews of the man's employer, and the official word from the DoD "we tracked the vehicle from a known ISIS safehouse."

The vehicle was a Toyota Corolla whose driver took his coworkers home, and one coworker's home was "a known ISIS safehouse" even though he had long been working for the U.S. effort, in full support of the U.S. effort.

Let alone, ISIS isn't quite a government entity, but rather a terrorist group so not explicitly going to follow international treaties. Their premise is to blend in - the U.S. shouldn't be allowing the collateral damage to happen on our watch, rather do it's best to stop damaging and hurting civilians.

They investigated themselves and found no wrongdoing.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/03/watchdog-finds-no-m...

"Said was asked to investigate the Aug. 29 drone strike on a white Toyota Corolla sedan, which killed Zemerai Ahmadi and nine family members, including seven children. Ahmadi, 37, was a longtime employee of an American humanitarian organization."

What uniform would have avoided the tragedy?

You are blaming ISIS' lack of uniforms for the drone strike on this man and his nine family members?