rBack in October 2014 during Operation Protective Edge, then State Department Press Secretary Jen Psaki denounced Israel after an IDF air attack near a hospital in Gaza using the words 'appalling' and 'unjustified'. This was before an investigation was completed (probably before an investigation was underway).
Now in October 2015, the US carried out an air attack in Afghanistan. State Department Deputy Spokesman, Mark Toner said many, many things but basically said (I'm paraphrasing) 'let's wait for the investigation'.There are some differences in the two situations.
1. Maybe Afghan personnel called in the air attack in the 2015 case.
2. The weapons used by Hamas in 2014 and the Taliban in 2015 are probably different.
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3. Psaki is a different person from Toner although both speak for the Dept of State.
So what may have here (ignoring differences such as 1 and 2 above) is that neither Psaki or Toner are hypocrites but the US State Department is.
Transcript of the 2015 press conference is here.
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