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You’re probably writing this from a country that drops bombs on people without first knowing who they are or why they are there, just that they appear to be mal
by txsh 9y ago
You’re probably writing this from a country that drops bombs on people without first knowing who they are or why they are there, just that they appear to be male and over a certain height in an area of terrorist activity. No courts. No oversight. No accountability.
What Turkey is doing is terrible but mild in comparison to the drone war.
- integricho 9y agoActually I'm quite close to Turkey (I'm from Serbia), though we're not yet that much oppressed.
- tobltobs 9y agoAnd what do you want to tell us with your whataboutism?
- yesenadam 9y agoWell, that's a glib remark if I've ever heard one. "Whataboutism" - so that's.. said to people who tiresomely derail discussion of seriously wrongdoing with their pat diagnosis and dismiss the original topic as naive. Unfortunately you have done that same thing by using the word. I get why it's useful to have a name for the phenomenon, but there's nothing commendable about the way you used it, it came across sounding like a jerk who thinks they're superior. And made me wonder about what you "want to tell us". edit: Could the downvoters explain why? Thanks. I tried to say something substantive, I thought successfully. (joosters, I totally agree)
- joosters 9y agoIMO the person they were replying to sounded superior. There will always be a more important issue than the one being discussed. (in the eyes of someone, at least). That's no reason to prevent talking about anything else.
- torstenvl 9y agoVery few such countries exist, and most people in them aren't native English-speakers.
- com_kieffer 9y agoI'm pretty sure that most people in the US speak English. See "signature strikes": https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/01/obama-continue-signature-strikes-drones-civilian-deaths https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/01/obama-contin... Quoting from the article: > So-called “signature strikes”, targeting people whose behavior is assessed to be similar enough to those of terrorists to mark them for death, will continue, according to senior US officials. > Human-rights groups have long denounced the practice – whose criteria can be as vague as killing “military-aged males” in regions where terrorists operate – as anonymous killing.
- torstenvl 9y agoThe cited source does not support the stated proposition. It merely contains an unsourced, parenthetical, editorial comment to that effect. The alleged practice is not something the United States does.
- kingofpandora 9y ago> What Turkey is doing is terrible but mild in comparison to the drone war. Turkey does that too, though. It has been using combat drones inside its own borders, Iraq and Syria, and the Turkish Air Force has previous for bombing civilians.