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Wow... 1,700 air strikes just last year alone. That's more than 1 air strike every 6 hour for entire year! I'm wondering how much damage is being inflicted on c
by sytelus 10y ago
Wow... 1,700 air strikes just last year alone. That's more than 1 air strike every 6 hour for entire year! I'm wondering how much damage is being inflicted on civilians here. Not just people getting killed, but people becoming homeless or their livelihood getting destroyed. If these are not ultra-precise air strikes then we would be giving birth to future heavily disgruntled middle east population.
- megous 10y agohttps://airwars.org https://airwars.org
- amenghra 10y agoSome countries use cluster munition for some of their strikes. The usa last did this in 2009. The opposite of precise...
- megous 10y agoCluster munitions are bad, but you have to consider that people often try to hide in houses, in cellars during air raids in the city. Cluster munition will not do much to those people, other than being insanely noisy and terrifying. What will kill those people is a bomb that will drop the house on them. Indiscriminate killing is a function of decision making process, not the munition itself.
- DanBC 10y ago> Cluster munition will not do much to those people, Not all of the bomblets explode, so when those people come out of their houses they've got to not disturb any of the bomblets.
- megous 10y agoI understand that. People try to collect the bomblets afterwards though, especially in the city. So the harm is somewhat limited.
- dingaling 10y agoCluster munitions such as BL755 ( extensively used in Yemen at present ) were designed in the 1970s to attack massed Warpac tank formations pouring across the German plains. As a consequence they usually contain a high proportion of shaped-charge bomblets which can quite easily penetrate several inches of concrete. Brick and roof tiles don't stand a chance. Even the shrapnel from the fragmenting jacket can penetrate steel plate.
- austinjp 10y agoThe munition can't be removed from the chain, it's not a benign entity. From concept through design and production through to sale and use, the munition itself is a necessary element in the machinery of killing. Downplaying the importance of the munition itself enables industrialised slaughter. The arms trade deals in munitions, and is a multi-billion dollar industry. We can prevaricate all day about words like "defense", about how "guns don't kill people, people kill people", and about suggestions that "insanely terrifying" experiences "will not do much" to people. But language is important here, and you should consider carefully what you think and communicate about the weapons industry.
- DanBC 10y agoEspecially when they used to also drop food aid in packages that were the same colour as the cluster bomblets. (mostly text, but with graphic image of child with amputated limbs) http://www.rawa.org/cluster2.htm http://www.rawa.org/cluster2.htm http://www.landmineclearance.org/page2.html http://www.landmineclearance.org/page2.html
- lawnchair_larry 10y agoThe most recent episode of PBS Frontline offers an interesting view on this. Note that anyone 15 years old or younger living in Iraq today has never even seen a version of their country that isn't an active warzone, and it's only getting worse. The US are seemingly creating new terrorists faster than they are killing existing ones.
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- emptyfile 10y agoEver heard of ISIS?
- sytelus 10y agoThe problem is that all these bombings would actually help expand ISIS as civilians lose their dear ones/homes/livelihood due to allied bombing. Between 2014 to 2017, estimated drop in numbers of ISIS fighters was 6000 - that's about 20% drop [1]. Assuming all of them were killed, that's about 2000/year i.e. almost exactly number of airstrikes. So either it is taking one air strike to kill one terrorist or ISIS gets refueled pretty fast from disgruntled civilian population. [1] https://www.rt.com/usa/331355-islamic-state-fighters-numbers/ https://www.rt.com/usa/331355-islamic-state-fighters-numbers...