Punjab, Oct. 16 -- Pentagon officials reportedly want to withhold an internal report into the bombing of a school in southern Iran until after the US midterms at the earliest. The attack killed at least 156 people, 120 of them children.
The report
Bloomberg reported that senior Pentagon figures want the internal inquiry held back until after the 3 November vote, at the earliest. The report concerns an attack on a school in southern Iran whose death toll is among the highest for any single incident of this war.
A government delaying its own investigation into a mass-casualty strike on a school until after an election is a decision about politics rather than about facts. The facts do not change on 4 November. What changes is who has to ans...