OK, so you're largely relying on government claims which we know never makes mistakes, obfuscates, revisions, or distorts the truth to cover incompetence, malfeasance, illegality etc.
Yes, there is a cost benefit analysis that decides whether innocent people at a wedding party of funereal "deserve" to be massacred. Like our friends the Israelis, that algorithm undoubtedly includes the cost/benefit of 'collective punishment'. But funds for military hardware are hardly constrained in the climate of a Security State. "Detailed intelligence" is a rather meaningless term. It can never be checked independently. And certainly not
accurate intelligence. Considering the track record of the
institutions involved, let alone the questionable threat "our enemies" pose in the first place, it's an incredible claim that any of this has an empirical basis in "security". If anything collateral damage would seem to have an adverse effect to security over the long term. Unless a perpetual state of emergency is in fact the goal.
