United States and Israel attack Iran Early Saturday Morning

All six U.S. service members aboard a KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft were confirmed dead after their plane crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, March 12, 2026. Apparently, one KC-135 ran into the other while refueling.

This is a photo of the tail of the one that was able to land...
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smiley said:
wasn't that a mistake though??
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They're still dead, mistake or not.

Rich said:
But we’ve tested this instinct repeatedly in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Iran, and the pattern is hard to ignore.
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US leadership are slo-o-o-w learners. We pay the price for that in bodies and tax dollars.

And so it begins:
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials say was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
Man who attacked Michigan synagogue lost relatives in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, official says

We don't kill terrorists nearly as fast as we create them.
 
StarSong said:
US leadership are slo-o-o-w learners. We pay the price for that in bodies and tax dollars.

We don't kill terrorists nearly as fast as we create them.
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I’ve come to suspect that the issue isn’t a failure to learn at all. Something deeper is at work, some entrenched impulse or incentive that goes beyond any single administration. We’ve been drawn into the same entanglements again and again, and if the problem were as simple as learning the lesson, our leaders would have mastered it long ago.

“We don’t kill terrorists nearly as fast as we create them” may be the most devastatingly accurate summary of the long term consequences. Entire generations in Iraq and Iran will carry the memory of loss and devastation, and from that soil grows a deep, lasting resentment, one that will outlast any military campaign and may one day seek its own form of reckoning.
 
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