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Killing terrorists does not put you on the same level as Castro.
by 67726e 10y ago
Killing terrorists does not put you on the same level as Castro.
- agottem 10y agoDefine 'terrorist'
- tomp 10y agoI'm sure most of the Afghanis and Iraqis who've been oppressed by the US for decades would agree. /s
- NetStrikeForce 10y agoNo, it doesn't. However, you seem to be fairly convinced those people are all terrorists and not just political opponents that are under our drones' crosshairs. I guess the people massacred at that MSF hospital were terrorists, too.
- 67726e 10y ago> I guess the people massacred at that MSF hospital were terrorists, too. That wasn't a drone strike. That was an accidental attack by an AC-130 gunship. I'm sure folks in Yemen or Afghanistan are a political threat to Obama. Right.
- NetStrikeForce 10y agoAh, you're right. It wasn't a drone, it was humans massacring a MSF hospital by accident. I guess the irony of it should be self explanatory. If humans can attack during at least 30 minutes a (well-known) position by mistake, why should I believe that every single droned person was a terrorist?
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- sooheon 10y agoDroning doesn't kill only terrorists. There's plenty of collateral deaths (what do you think the ratio is, 1:10 intended targets to unintended when explosives are involved in civilian settings?) not to mention the labeling of who is and isn't a terrorist is hardly infallible. Of course those giving the go ahead are so far removed from the consequences that it must become easier and easier to order drone strikes when intelligence tells you it will "save American lives".
- 67726e 10y agoAgain, Castro went about killing or jailing all those who opposed him. My original statement was that no US president has done so.
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