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This comment is extremely naive. Once you create a weapon, you have no control over how its used by politicians years later. The engineers who made the avionics
by wedn3sday 8y ago
This comment is extremely naive. Once you create a weapon, you have no control over how its used by politicians years later. The engineers who made the avionics system for the Predator drones (just as a random example) are somewhat responsible for when those drones are used to bomb wedding parties, even if when they were developing the drone it was only intended for surveillance. Most of the people who would like to kill (pick my group), would like to do so because of careless use of advanced weapons systems by politicians who're only interested in the next election cycle. The politicians could never have bombed those wedding parties, and thus created the people that want to kill my group, if some very smart and morally bankrupt engineers hadnt given them the ability to do so. Being armed is only good if you trust the people who control those arms. I dont know where you live, but the guy in control of my countries military is a narcissistic cheeto with the IQ of a cuncused wombat, whos first week in office involved the authorization of a combat mission that resulted in more then 20 dead non-combatants [0], including a 4 year old child.
[0] https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/yemen-raid-trump-obama/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/yemen-raid-trump-oba...
- jakeogh 8y ago"narcissistic cheeto" strong (among other things...) argument there. If dropping bombs on people is your metric, you might want to mention his predecessor.
- jessaustin 8y agoYes it was a terrible error for Congress to declare war against the Houthi in Yemen. Very few USA interests have been served by all the children we've killed there since March 2015.