Washington’s Dubious Justifications
NOVANEWS
by Inside Syria Media Center
According to Reuters, on November 29, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook announced that Washington would draw the moral from international coalition’s mistaken bombing on the positions of the Syrian army in Deir ez-Zor. He also called the incident as “a departure from the high standards of the US.”
Brigadier General Richard Coe, who led the investigation, told reporters at the Pentagon on a conference call on Tuesday that the main cause of the incident was “human error”. At the same time, he hastened to justify military international coalition, saying that they were “good people trying to do the right thing. These people get it right far more often than not, but this time they came up short.”
Despite all these reasons of the “unfortunate mistak...