Yesterday there was horrific news about an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza. Only, it turns out that the most likely explanation is a failed rocket launch by Islamic Jihad, a group allied with Hamas.
As Marshall notes, the fog of war is a real thing. The initial reports of the attack were from Hamas, which should be taken with a pause for perspective. As one commentator noted, the fact that we know think it was a failed missile launch and it certainly does not look like anything more was damaged than a parking lot is almost irrelevant. In the super-charged world of 24 hour news cycle and social media "expertise" the narrative is now that Israel hit a hospital. Subsequent facts aren't especially helpful in changing minds that don't want to be changed.
If there is one advantage to Biden's age it is that he is not the sort to rush to judgment. He's been in enough rooms where he's seen that rush to judgment and been around for the awful aftermath. Maybe it's just the historian in me, but calm the fuck down people. You have no idea what the world will look like in 2 days, much less two years or two decades. The ephemera of the CNN/Twitter landscape will melt away. Clio, the Muse of History, gets the last word.
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