General McKenzie admitted today that the U.S. drone strike in Kabul of August 29 was not, in fact, “righteous,” as General Milley described it two weeks ago, but was an absolute disaster. “As many as ten civilians, including up to seven children,” McKenzie said, “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.”
I wonder what the excuse for this one will be? That this was the plan all along? That any president exiting Afghanistan would have droned seven kids in a Toyota? That this shows once again why we had to leave Afghanistan in the way we did — because, if we hadn’t, the president would still be incinerating children?
This happened because Biden felt that it was politically necessary to hit someone in order to change the narrative, and so he hit someone in order to change the narrative. Presumably, it did not help matters that, by August 29, the United States had become reliant upon the Taliban for intelligence.
