To the editor: In criticizing the Pentagon's response to a U.S. assault on a hospital in Afghanistan, The Times displays its armchair naivete by seeking to find order and predictability in the conduct of war. It is one reason why we should be slow to go to war in the first place. If appropriate administrative penalties fail to satisfy some understandable but misplaced desire for retribution, so be it. Mike Post, WinnetkaFollow the Opinion section on Twitter @latimesopinion and Facebook Certainly every effort should be made to avoid mistakes like the hospital being erroneously targeted, but to treat the involved military personnel like they had just embarked on an urban crime spree is ludicrous.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 07, 2016 06:30 UTC