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https://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-afghanistan-airstrikes-increased-civilian-deaths-by-330-since-2016-2020-12 https://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-afghanistan-airstri... https://theintercept.com/2019/10/02/trump-impeachment-civilian-casualties-war/ https://theintercept.com/2019/10/02/trump-impeachment-civili... Civilian casualties have substantially increased under Trump. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-arms-congress-idUSKBN1942GG https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-arms-congress-i... He has resumed arms sales to the Saudis for their bombing campaign in Yemen. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47480207 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47480207 And suspended reporting on civilian casualties. Oddly enough I think the fact that I see comments like yours so frequently is the biggest possible endorsement of his no-reporting policy. The amount of praise Trump receives for being 'anti-war', despite ample evidence to the contrary, is a good lesson for future establishments on the negative effect of transparency in such matters.

isaacremuant 6y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/under-obama-men-killed-by-drones-are-presumed-to-be-terrorists/257749/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/under-o... Obama classified military aged men (>= 16) as non civilians when killed by drones so those numbers are abslutaly skewed. He also had signature strikes, the disposition matrix, expanded/initiated drone/bombing campaigns to an absurd and terrible degree. Obama is a great example where partisanship makes people defend anything he did even where he was worse than Bush (And Trump has been criticized even more than Bush For less than Bush/Obama). Trying to rewrite history to align party lines or "Orangemanbad" narratives doesn't really work. Finally, it's disingenuous calling Obama's administration transparent when it was anything but. Even the ACLU said so and he was absolutely at war with whistleblowers.

isaacremuant 6y ago

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/under-obama-men-killed-by-drones-are-presumed-to-be-terrorists/257749/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/under-o... Obama classified military aged men (>= 16) as non civilians when killed by drones so those numbers are abslutaly skewed. He also had signature strikes, the disposition matrix, expanded/initiated drone/bombing campaigns to an absurd and terrible degree. Obama is a great example where partisanship makes people defend anything he did even where he was worse than Bush (And Trump has been criticized even more than Bush For less than Bush/Obama). Trying to rewrite history to align party lines or "Orangemanbad" narratives doesn't really work. Finally, it's disingenuous calling Obama's administration transparent when it was anything but. Even the ACLU said so and he was absolutely at war with whistleblowers.