One story and one story only is dominating American media attention this week: President Donald Trump’s national security team accidentally adding Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat in which they planned the recent air strikes on the Houthis, who govern Yemen. It’s easy to see why. This is a scandal that is unprecedented in terms of the incompetence and irresponsibility on display from top officials, especially given that it concerns the most traditionally sensitive of sensitive topics: war and national security.

But there is so much media fixation on Trump officials’ recklessness in potentially broadcasting classified information to prying eyes that a lot is being lost in the mix.

For one, there’s almost no discussion about the actual nature of the US strikes on Yemen, which were celebrated by Trump officials in the group chat as a great success. It does seem that some Houthi leaders were killed by the strikes. But they also destroyed a cancer hospital and killed at least twenty-five civilians in the first week — more than Joe Biden’s own yearlong bombing of the Houthis had managed to kill — with at least four children among the dead and another two injured.