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> But you’re kidding yourself if you think the current US military and its contractors won’t use those weapons to drone innocent people in Yemen The US militar
by jonnybgood 8y ago
> But you’re kidding yourself if you think the current US military and its contractors won’t use those weapons to drone innocent people in Yemen
The US military actually doesn’t want that to happen. It invests huge amount of resources in developing processes and tech to minimize collateral damage and civilian deaths. Winning hearts and minds is just as important to the mission as dropping bombs on ISIS and Al Qeada.
- opportune 8y agoEven if the US military itself doesn't, the US has allies who don't seem to care as much about innocent people being hurt: https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/12/08/yemen-us-made-bombs-used-unlawful-airstrikes https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/12/08/yemen-us-made-bombs-used... That doesn't even touch on the fact that the US involves itself in many conflicts where the enemy combatants are pretty much "innocent" relative to the US, and continually approves arms sales to despotic dictators installed via US-backed regime change. A lot of the unethical actions of the US are outsourced