It really takes quite a bit of coloured glasses to see that as anything but random killing of unknown people in an urban area.
Tons of people have guns in that area. You can tell in a split-second that the people they were looking at were not aware of any threat towards them, which also makes it obvious that they were not prepared to shoot at anyone either.
What's more important, it was very clear from the video that the behaviour of the gunpilots was not something they considered in any way special. Just another day in the office. Geneva be damned, gunning down wounded people and people trying to help them is obviously common practice for these guys. (The insurgents do it, why shouldn't the US?)
The pilots wanted to shoot at something, they cooked up an excuse and started blasting. How is this any different from randomly car-bombing US controlled areas? Lots of people in those areas have guns too.
What the US (and Israel) is doing is counter-productice. You can't win that kind of a war in that way unless you're willing to do full-scale genocide.
I only hope that the new strategies and policies of the new US administration has lead to some kind of a change in attitude somewhere.
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