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> It's akin to dropping bombs on military targets during WW II. You couldn't have picked a worse example. Innocent civilians were widely targeted in WWII. Enti
by abalone 13y ago
> It's akin to dropping bombs on military targets during WW II.
You couldn't have picked a worse example. Innocent civilians were widely targeted in WWII. Entire cities were subjected to terrorist bombing campaigns specifically to "break the morale of the population which occupies it" and "make the people conscious of constant personal danger."
WWII pretty much invented large-scale terrorism justified as military necessity.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_...
- jasonlotito 13y agoI'll admit I could have picked a better example, but I also made a point to specify military targets in my comment for a reason.
- streetnigga 13y ago> I also made a point to specify military targets in my comment for a reason. Which is why the user above responded. US justification for these strikes is because they are deemed "military targets," and often the intel behind the strikes themselves is extremely tenuous. While on not the scale of WWII firebombing the terrorist aspects of it cannot be ignored. Much US government documentation on their strikes speaks of the psychological aspects of those under a drone's strike zone. They cast a terrorized population in terms of being "less prone to supporting Alqaeda Top Man #85032" or other nonsense that only addresses the social impact in the narrowest terms to ensure victory can be declared in some way by the author. In the end the population below still feels terrorized by the presence of "justice from above" with no due recourse. This is completely aside from what those in the US government wish to call it.