U.S. critics such as Benjamin H. Friedman, policy director of the Washington, D.C.-based Defense Priorities think tank, say the soldiers who were killed and wounded should not have been there in the first place.
“The militia that killed U.S. forces should be held accountable. But we should ask why U.S. forces in the area were left in range of repeated drone, missile, and rocket attacks. What cause justified this predictable danger? The answer is none. The U.S. government put them in harm’s way in service of a murky and pointless mission.
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