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Experience shows that mistakenly blasting some civilians into pink mist doesn't mean anything if those civilians aren't white US citizens on US soil...
by ddalex 6y ago
Experience shows that mistakenly blasting some civilians into pink mist doesn't mean anything if those civilians aren't white US citizens on US soil...
- angry_octet 6y agoYou can certainly choose to believe this, but it is wrong. What you are referring to is choosing to blow something up based on a systematic approach that follows the laws of armed conflict, with frequent legal oversight, separate after action review, in a system that strongly punishes failure to follow process. This system is fully endorsed by the US Congress, representing the citizenry. So if some civilians get blown up, 9/10 it was a deliberate decision.
- ddalex 6y agoI meant that there are no actual repercussions. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1998) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1... repeated incidents where US killed citizens of other countries with impunity and no repercussions for the perps
- angry_octet 6y agoRogers certainly got off lightly, as did the system that promoted him, and the US has to own that, along with all the other atrocities. The US pays in a thousand ways they choose not to account for -- the guilty have externalised the costs.