In an embarrassing bit of timing, as US officials were railing against the Syrian military for targeting civilians at the UN, US warplanes were attacking a cotton mill in northeastern Syria, an attack which killed at least 10 civilians.
It is unclear why the cotton mill, in the village of Salhiyeh, was targeted in the first place, but it is north of the ISIS capital city of Raqqa, which Kurdish YPG forces are in the process of surrounding. The Kurdish forces are almost exclusively north of the city.
Which is also the direction civilians are fleeing Raqqa. Among the civilians slain in the cotton mill attack were a displaced family of six who were sheltering in the area. Also killed were three employees and another bystander from the village.
This is the latest in a growing number of incidents in which US airstrikes supporting Kurdish offensives in Syria have killed innocent civilians. Despite these being well documented, official Pentagon figures dramatically under-report the actual death toll of US strikes.
Well, yes, we may have killed a few innocent civilians; but their surviving relatives will be pleased to know that the virtuous US uses only high-precision weapons and not those terribly inaccurate “barrel bombs” that evil Syria uses.
Wait a minute, wouldn’t that mean that the US kills civilians deliberately while Syria kills them accidentally? Oh, yeah, that would require the use of logic, which of course is no longer favored here in the Land of the Fleeced and the Home of the Gullible.
On the wonderful Obama watch … Such an enlightened, warm, liberal and understanding worm.
To Mr. Obama: have you no decency, sir, at long last?
They can take some solace that the bombs that killed them were the humanitarian kind, dropped with a heart full of love concern and willingness to ‘help’.