My take is the evidence is out there and can't be put back in the tube.
So go to limited hang out. Yep. It was civilians. Our bad. But stand by intel.
'Stand by intel' means we're not going to say who the intel was, because, you know, opsec. Have to protect our assets.
If McKenzie decided to investigate, then asset would have to be burned for an official investigation I think.. It wouldn't be pretty.
What's this mean? Something like, perhaps, intel came from some talibanner who, for shits and giggles, got the US to take out an anti-talibanner. Could have looked bad if the talibanners did it themselves, so get the dumbfucks in the US to do it for us, since they're desperate to do something to try to save face from us exploding a bomb in their KIA security midst.
If there's a silver lining to this low-ceiling overcast, maybe it's after Milley & the treasonous China calls and Mckenzire and his, "My bad, guys", about the dead kids, it's a 3 on a match scenario and whatever the 3rd light up is, it exposes the whole diseased, fucking corrupt temple.