Originally Posted by
recceguy
When US (or NATO which is the same) hits an hospital it's a mistake or a collateral damage.
When it's the other side it's a war crime.
Plenty of posters here get on the "war crime" bus as soon as a building is reported to be hit by someone from the US. (The one in Kandahar within the last year or two is a case in point).
Unlike them, I don't assume that what the news reports spit out initially is some how Gospel.
For example in this case: if someone was shooting at the aircraft, or the troops who the aircraft are supporting, from the roof of that hospital, they turned the hospital into a fighting position by that very act.
Hmm ... a fighting position is a valid target.
Give this some time. What really happened? Neither you nor I know, beyond "something blowed-up, sir." .