Overnight, warplanes from the US-led coalition attacked a rebel base belonging to the Islamic Front, the moderate Islamist faction in the anti-Assad rebellion, near a northwestern border crossing between Syria and Turkey.
The attacks hit not only the base but the surrounding countryside in Idlib Province, killing a number of civilians, including an unspecified number of children.
The Pentagon has insisted that its restrictions on airstrikes designed to limit civil deaths do not apply in Syria and Iraq as open combat zones, and a growing number of incidents of civilian deaths have been reported
This is also the first time the coalition is confirmed to have attacked an Islamic Front target, meaning they are not only targeting ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra, but also some of the more moderate factions.
Good, now target the FSA as well. But at least aim right.
"…restrictions on airstrikes designed to limit civil deaths do not apply in Syria and Iraq…"
News flash, kiddies…these "restrictions" are either unenforced or are woefully insufficient regardless of the operational theater. Of course, if the Pentagon doesn't really care whether there are civilian deaths (my vote) then the restrictions are irrelevant. Notice how they no longer use the term "collateral damage."
Obama is a mass murderer along with the Republicans who support him. They are bombing these factions because they act independently of DC. If you want to fight the assad regime, then you have to be commanded and controlled by DC.
The USG, and the mass of the unthinking, fails to see the absolute immorality of dropping bombs and remotely firing missiles from drones, as if playing a video game. When you drop bombs, no matter how precise, you don't really know who is on the other end, you are terrorizing an entire population, and you are deliberatingly destroying the meager infrastructure needed to keep the natives alive. I submit that, if the USG insists the cause is just (which it isn't), then it should ground the bombers and drones, send in the infantry, and fight these jihadists on the ground like men. All the high tech weaponry on both sides should be destroyed. The troops should have shotguns, bayonets, and knives only. You should have to see, up close, the person that you kill.. In an ugly world, I see that as less immoral than reckless, full-spectrum bombing. But that would lead to many US casualties. Only the "Other" should be killed, innocent or not, not the Exceptional People. Collateral damage – who cares?