> Ok so bad intel or a similar mistake?

Forget "rules based order" or any sympathy from US Military/Pentagon/DoD.

When "arabs" bomb "the West" - it's "terrorism". When "the West" bomb "arabs" - it's a "mistake".

Same forces that did laser precision strikes against Maduro or countless military heads of Iran are attacking civilian infrastructure with double tap precision.

I am amazed how since WW2 there wasn't a military coup in USA as many wars from them were against any logic. I guess it just proves year after year, generation after generation that US military from top-to-bottom thinks that they are the only "good guys" and have been brainwashed just as their counterparts (be it Iraqis, Iranians, Chinese or anyone).