On Israeli efforts to minimize civilian casualties, NSC's John Kirby says: "We have seen some indications that there are there are efforts being applied in certain scenarios to try to minimize, but I don't want to overstate that."
Really helped put things in perspective for me about how ridiculous the demands that we stop backing the IDF are once I understood how much these decisions are weighing on them.
Sometimes I still think about this guy's glowing endorsement of the IDF when he was asked if the US was concerned about civilian deaths way back in early November:
Really helped put things in perspective for me about how ridiculous the demands that we stop backing the IDF are once I understood how much these decisions are weighing on them.
Occasionally in some situations under the right circumstances, they won’t kill civilians, but predominantly yes. Ridiculous.