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You’ll never hear Demented Donnie admit that he and his misadministration screwed up and their incompetence killed all those children.

Make no mistake: this is NOT the fog of war—this was incompetence!

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Northwest · M

This is not the first time our missiles accidentally targeted civilians in the area.

On July 3rd 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 an Airbus A-300 was on a scheduled 28 minutes flight from the Bandar Abbas Airport to Dubai. The USS Vincennes was on patrol duty right below the flight path, when its systems identified the jumbo civilian airliner as an F-14 and its Captain ordered it taken down using two ship-to-air missiles.

290 civilians were killed. 65 of the passengers were children.

The flight went down about 60 miles from the girls' school that was destroyed less than a week ago.

Kids get killed in wars, so the best option is to find an alternative but this is not possible when we have a Department of War. War is what you're going to conduct when you no longer have a Department of Defense.

The captain of the USS Vincennes at the time, William C. Rogers III was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1990 for his service as commanding officer, which caused significant international controversy.

KunsanVeteran · M

@Northwest That’s absolutely awful…that LOM should have been revoked. Not that it was deliberate, but it gives a very bad message in this context.

Northwest · M

@KunsanVeteran Independent investigations into the incident have presented a different picture. John Barry and Roger Charles of Newsweek magazine claimed that Rogers was overeager for combat, that he started the fight with Iranian gunboats, and then followed them into Iranian territorial waters. Barry and Charles also accused the U.S. government of a cover-up.

Other sources lay some of the blame on the complexity of the AEGIS technology and the desire on the part of Captain Rogers to make use of it. An analysis of the events by the International Strategic Studies Association described the deployment of an Aegis cruiser into that zone as irresponsible, and the Association thought that the enormous cost of his warship had played a major part in setting a low threshold for Captain Rogers decision to open fire.

In 2004, Marita Turpin and Niek du Plooy of the Centre for Logistics and Decision Support partially attributed the accident to an expectancy bias introduced by the Aegis Combat System and faulted the design and "unhelpful user interface" as contributing to the errors of judgment.

KunsanVeteran · M

@Northwest That predates my time in the USAF by two years and we never studied this incident in ACSC or Air War College.

But we certainly studied numerous dangerous incidents by each branch of the Services and it doesn’t take much imagination on my part to see how every possible hiccough could occur at the worst possible moment—and human error figures large.

Northwest · M

@KunsanVeteran

and human error figures large.

That's just it, there's every reason to believe that Palantir, that's taken much of the prep work for the military, was involved in programming the "route" in the Tomahawks and the pilot simply pushed the red file button.