One interesting angle to that fiasco is that I'm not convinced the public has been told the full story of what happened.
I'm fully convinced that the public has rarely ever been told the full story of that sort of happening.
Since it’s a topical example, consider the USS Liberty attack from 1967; it wasn’t until 40 years later that the Chicago Tribune publicized previously unreported first-hand accounts indicating that the NSA (contra it’s prior stance) had actually intercepted the communications of the attacking Israeli pilots, saying that not only did transcripts of those communications exist, but also that it showed the Israelis knew they were attacking an American naval vessel.
It’ll probably be decades before it becomes officisply known as to what extent America’s military involvement extends to places like Syria, Jordan, and Ukraine. Until then, we have to settle for Twitter/TikTok accounts of dubious quality.