After 13 U.S. service members were killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, President Joe Biden sought retribution.
An Afghan compound was subjected to an air-strike hours later. The administration claimed the target was an imminent threat to service members at the Kabul airport.
Not long after CNN took interviews from witnesses of the air strike. Survivors claimed the building was an ordinary family home.
They claimed their family had no ties to ISIS-K or any other terrorist organization. Now their families had been slain for no legitimate reason.
Neighbors regaled horrific tales of using water buckets to quench the flames that engulfed the house. When they were able to enter, they said that the remains if young children were splattered all over the place.
Many were skeptical. Believing that the witnesses might be lying in order to conceal operations.
We now know that the testimony of these witnesses and family members is true.
In a Pentagon briefing General Kenneth McKenzie said “I am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians including up to 7 children were tragically killed in that strike. Moreover, we now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with ISIS-K”
This military attack was on civilians. Not on terrorists. Our military did not have adequate intelligence to strike this target. From the get go, the pentagon was unsure if the target was a suicide bomber, or a car bomb.
It was even a possibility that the vehicle would simply be used to transport terrorists to the airport. They had no idea what was going on.
They struck anyway. Now 7 children and three adult civilians lay dead and eviscerated in their own homes abroad.