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> The US will have ceded much of the moral high ground they claimed in avenging the slaughter of innocent protesters.

It will be forgotten soon.



> It will be forgotten soon.

it won't. Opposing US political side will weaponize this incident in their interests.


I hope you're right, and one day we don't read 20 or 30 years from now the biography of a terrorist, and it starts out with their experience being the sibling of a child injured at one of these schools.


In the US, but not in Iran and elsewhere.


Yeah, but that does not influence US politics.


I’d argue that Iran has a huge influence on US politics, as the US is currently at war with them.


The fate of Iranian civilians does not impact US politics.

A majority of Americans are completely unconcerned by the suffering of victims of the empire abroad.


the "concern" of US civilians in general is different from the result of their nations behaviours




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