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Mostly innocents? That's not supported by the numbers I was looking at. Could you point me to these numbers? It looked to me like killing a whole slew of extre
by analognoise 8y ago
Mostly innocents? That's not supported by the numbers I was looking at.
Could you point me to these numbers? It looked to me like killing a whole slew of extremists for extremely minimal collateral damage.
- frickinLasers 8y agoI wasn't referring to drone strikes in particular. I pulled the numbers from from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war... and might have misread the 30k wounded as additional deaths. So "most" could be wrong, but the numbers have a way of reflecting the best possible outcome for us. I'll try to be more precise in future rants. As for drone strikes: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/11/14/hidden-toll-of-us-drone-strikes-in-yemen-nearly-a-third-of-deaths-are-civilians-not-al-qaida/ https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/11/14/...