Syrian airstrikes against the ISIS capital of Raqqa this week ended up killing scores of civilians, 95 of them by some accounts, has fueled a round of US condemnations, accusing them of deliberately targeting residential areas.
Syria denied the accusations, saying the death tolls were “fabricated” and that they are being far more careful about civilian casualties than, say, the nations that are arming random rebel factions in the country.
Syrian officials went on to accuse the US of ignoring the number of civilians killed by ISIS, which is a number far greater than those alleged to have happened in this round of airstrikes.
Reports of large civilian tolls are nothing new, but it is noteworthy that the Assad government is using the exact same tactics the Pentagon is using in reports of its own civilian deaths in US airstrikes against the exact same territory. The strategy is to deny the deaths, and to follow that up by accusing the enemy they’re attacking of being way worse at any rate.
More mind boggling hypocrisy and projection from the world's number 1 terrorist state(neck and neck with Israel). What else is new? This would all be hilarious if the US didn't leave a pile of corpses everywhere it went.
"…deliberately targeting residential areas."
You know, it's really sad that the US didn't have the same level of condemnation against the Israelis when the Israelis blatantly targeted, not only civilian residential areas but schools that had been identified as UN refugee safe zones.
I won't even get into the number of civilian collateral deaths the US has left in its wake. Remember what Rummy said…"Stuff happens!!"
But, I guess if you are on the US's badguy list then what you do is much, much worse than what the US does because…well, the US is exceptional and you aren't.