Trump asked "Why did you wait?" about armed US drone strike that avoided killing civilians

[highplainsdem]

Found thanks to WaPo's Philip Bump retweeting Politco's Michael Crowley's "wow" response to this part of the Washington Post story:

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/for-trump-and-his-generals-victory-has-different-meanings/2018/04/05/8d74eab0-381d-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html

Trump came to office promising to give the Pentagon a free hand to unleash the full force of U.S. firepower. His impatience was evident on his first full day in office when he visited the CIA and was ushered up to the agency’s drone operations floor.

There agency officials showed him a feed from Syria, where Obama-era rules limited the agency to surveillance flights — part of a broader push by the previous administration to return the CIA to its core espionage mission and shift the job of killing terrorists to the military.

Trump urged the CIA to start arming its drones in Syria. “If you can do it in 10 days, get it done,” he said, according to two former officials familiar with the meeting.

Later, when the agency’s head of drone operations explained that the CIA had developed special munitions to limit civilian casualties, the president seemed unimpressed. Watching a previously recorded strike in which the agency held off on firing until the target had wandered away from a house with his family inside, Trump asked, “Why did you wait?” one participant in the meeting recalled.

Emphasis added.

[Girard442]

1. I guess Trump had it on good authority that no pregnant women were there.

He's pro-life, you know.

[highplainsdem]

2. I'm sure he'd make an exception for pregnant women related to people he hates.

[gratuitous]

3. "To avoid committing a war crime, sir"

Unless someone has a better answer, I'll go with that.

[Abu Pepe]

4. You have to take out their families

is what he has said in the past. when we start targeting children he will say it was a campaign promise.