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I don't think temporarily stopping us from spying on them justifies potentially killing people, particularly as I'd bet we do the same thing. And no matter how

• post_from_work 5y ago
  >>>I don't think temporarily stopping us from spying on them justifies potentially killing people Interestingly enough, Trump took the same position when the Iranians shot down an expensive spy drone, and Trump called off the punitive strike against Iran that would have killed ~150 people. Yet people maintained that he was an unstable warmonger. shrug https://www.npr.org/2019/06/21/734683701/trump-reportedly-orders-strike-on-iran-then-calls-off-attack-plan https://www.npr.org/2019/06/21/734683701/trump-reportedly-or...
  • boomboomsubban 5y ago
    Because he also made decisions like removing the Presidential approval for CIA drone strikes, dropped the "Mother of All Bombs," sold masses of weapons to the Saudis while helping them kill Yemenis, and many more acts. That he claimed to have stopped one strike doesn't change his record, though his overall record was similar to other recent presidents.
    • post_from_work 5y ago
      >>>his overall record was similar to other recent presidents That's kinda my point, he wasn't significantly different from the other idiots we've had in office but CNN et al. certainly didn't spend 8 years calling Obama an unhinged tyrant, despite him also being more of the same with regards to bombing brown countries.