So let's assume that the 3000-page explanation of why a "Doctors without Borders" hospital in Afghanistan was targeted and destroyed by US forces is, in fact, completely correct. Mistakes and fatigue and error led to a tragedy.
Can we, at the very least, factor such inevitable mistakes / fatigue / errors / tragedies into any future political evaluations of the costs of military action? Because the military and/or the politicians who keep pushing the US to take bold, forthright, righteous, courageous action against bad guys here and there (and they are often bad guys, no doubt of it) always seem to assume 100% efficiency, 100% accuracy, and 100% reliability in our being able to execute such military actions without mistakes / fatigue / errors leading to similar tragedies.
Which, if acknowledged up front, just possibly sway public opinion about taking such military action.
Military Releases 3,000-Page Explanation of Why Kunduz Hospital Was Bombed
It’s just a case of operator error and instrument failure — not a war crime!
And several of the brass need to be on trials for war crimes. All this is a over wordy CYA instead of doing the right thing and starting prosecutions.