“American soldiers would be prosecuted and punished for any kind of murder.”
Remember in Afghanistan when we were pulling out and bombed a guy re-cycling water bottles killing him, another adult, and seven children? This was supposed to change the narrative about the quality of the intelligence information we had. Do you recall the punishment?
That was a missile or drone strike.
Not the same as boots on the ground doing it.
Besides, it was under St. Joe of Bidet, so not prosecutable.