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It's more disturbing to read complaints about a strike against a brigadier general, where two countries are at war with each other, a mere few days after we lea
by yyyk 5y ago
It's more disturbing to read complaints about a strike against a brigadier general, where two countries are at war with each other, a mere few days after we learnt the US droned 10 civilians in Kabul as a 'retaliation' for an IS strike. We at HN should look inwards on this one.
- coder583 5y agoApparently you can just throw around words like "terrorist" against the enemies of US and the genocidal state of "Israel", and then killing innocent civilians is now justified. Who are the real terrorists? It's just the same old story, a group of humans justifying murder for their own self-interest, and their brains coming up with the most bizarre nonsense to try and rationalize it. Some of the people even consider themselves "rationalists". The same justifications could be used to justify stuff like the holocaust, but who cares about logical consistency?
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- oliwarner 5y agoSeems to be rather a bad faith argument to suggest that they're not also against that drone strike. Maybe you'd like to suggest they're advocating for the genocides of Uyghurs and Rohingyas because they didn't mention those either.
- yyyk 5y agoI'm not suggesting that the they are not against that strike. However, most of HN is American, this is an American site linking in this case to a story in American media. Complaining against the lesser 'offender' (if at all) in a site hosted in a greater 'offender' is unfortunate. Also, the ordering of the posts is affected by upvotes, and the GGP's post is first. I suspect that plenty of US people who do shrug their shoulders at that drone strike upvoted that post.
- zardo 5y agoIsrael is only able to do this because of the unconditional support of the US. US has bloody hands in both instances.