SNAFU

U.S.-led air strikes hit grain silos and other targets in Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-controlled territory in northern and eastern Syria overnight, killing civilians and wounding insurgents, a group monitoring the war said on Monday.

  al Jazeera

Too bad it wasn’t the other way around, eh?

The aircraft may have mistaken the mills and grain storage areas in the northern Syrian town of Manbij for an ISIL base, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. There was no immediate comment from Washington.

So that "wounding insurgents" part may be purely fictitious.

Jesus wept.

Let us remember that we are pre-emptively bombing another country again.  Or, if that doesn't fit your technical definition of who we are striking, we are still pre-emptively striking a group that has not attacked us.

I guess if you have already committed as many war crimes as we have in the past dozen years, what's a few more?  It's a brave new world.