{"id":35273,"date":"2026-03-09T09:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35273"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:45:01","slug":"the-bombing-of-the-girls-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35273","title":{"rendered":"The Bombing of the Girls School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last weekend, at the start of the Iran War (which the Trump administration describes as a &#8220;war&#8221; while drawing a legal distinction it isn&#8217;t a war so they can, in their minds, avoid &#8220;war crimes&#8221;), the United States bombed an Iranian girls school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then bombed it again for good measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can see immediately why the Trump administration wants to say they can&#8217;t commit war crimes without a war.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_20260309-084031.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Hickel: The US bombing of schoolchildren is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran's oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.\" class=\"wp-image-35272\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has been at the back of my mind for a couple of days, but I hadn&#8217;t really given it much thought.  There&#8217;s so much else going on, and there&#8217;s no Western journalism on the ground to cover what&#8217;s happening and what&#8217;s not.  On some level, it all feels a bit distant and nebulous, almost like a video game (which is pretty close to the way the Trump administration is talking about the way.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning, while doing my Twitter doomscroll, I saw a piece of Iranian propaganda about the the bombing of the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t care that it is propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t care that it is ostensibly from a country we are at war with, even if we won&#8217;t actually say so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I care about it that it personalizes a war crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf7 Iranian media published a video dedicated to the students killed in the US-Israeli attack on a school in Minab. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iGNGqVTcjR\">pic.twitter.com\/iGNGqVTcjR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sprinter Press (@SprinterPress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SprinterPress\/status\/2030735968391586109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A girls school is not a military target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The girls attending the school were not soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why did the United States bomb a school?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why did the United States murder over 100 children?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What the fuck are we doing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I use the word &#8220;murder&#8221; deliberately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">End the war.  Now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The war <em>will<\/em> end, probably sooner rather than later. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/bulletin\/news\/us-military-draft-iran-war-karoline-leavitt-b2934768.html\">Despite Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt talking about the possibility of a military draft<\/a>, I doubt Trump has any real stomach for a prolonged conflict. He probably expected Venezuela 2.0 &#8212; quick hit and we&#8217;re done &#8212; and he&#8217;ll get tired of it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"474\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_20260309-082645.jpg\" alt=\"Qasim Rashid: There are only 4 possible scenarios. 4th is best option for humanity &amp; the one Trump would rather die than accept. 1. Trump admits defeat &amp; leaves Iran. 2. Trump conducts a ground invasion. USA will lose. 3. Israel &amp; USA use nuclear weapons. 4. Trump resigns or is impeached.\" class=\"wp-image-35270\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I think Qasim Rashid&#8217;s #1 &#8212; Trump admits defeat and leaves Iran &#8212; is the most <em>likely<\/em>, the United States is not the only actor here. This is also Israel&#8217;s war, and their interests are not America&#8217;s interests. Frankly, and I hate saying this because it sounds utterly mad and bloodthirsty, I feel like Bibi Netanyahu would merrily carry on with attacking Iran if the United States declared a peace and withdrew, and when he runs out of conventional weapons he has a nuclear arsenal of his own he can turn to. The man has wanted to bomb Iran for at least twenty years.  He&#8217;s obsessed with the possibility that Iran <em>might<\/em> someday develop a nuclear bomb.  At times I have felt he won&#8217;t be happy until he&#8217;s turned Tehran into a radioactive crater.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"426\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_20260309-082541.jpg\" alt=\"Dimi Reider: Folks, this is real simple. Trump may have been sold a half-baked plan to replace the Iranisn regime, but Israel is not interested in nation-building. Israel wants nation-wrecking. For Bibi, ideal is Iran implodes &amp; Iranians fight each other for next 20-50 years.\" class=\"wp-image-35269\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In light of the last week, Iran developing a nuclear weapon is a completely rational decision, as a nuclear weapon would be a deterrent against attacks from nuclear powers like the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mutually Assured Destruction worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know how this ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/franz-ferdinand-attack-idf-for-using-take-me-out-in-propaganda-video-this-makes-us-both-nauseous-and-furious-3933432\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"428\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_20260309-082929.jpg\" alt=\"Adam Smith: If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.\" class=\"wp-image-35271\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Modern war has been video game-ified, with corpse humping and remix videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing says how morally degraded modern civilization has become than the memeification of war and death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, at the start of the Iran War (which the Trump administration describes as a &#8220;war&#8221; while drawing a legal distinction it isn&#8217;t a war so they can, in their minds, avoid &#8220;war crimes&#8221;), the United States bombed an Iranian girls school. And then bombed it again for good measure. You can see immediately<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35273\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Bombing of the Girls School&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[5419,4258,180,181,5423,503],"class_list":["post-35273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-operation-epstein-fury","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}