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> Wait, ANOTHER wedding? Didn't we do this a year or two ago also? More than that. I remember quite a few news reports of weddings in Pakistan being hit. On t
by lmkg 13y ago
> Wait, ANOTHER wedding? Didn't we do this a year or two ago also?
More than that. I remember quite a few news reports of weddings in Pakistan being hit.
On the flip side, I've also heard the authenticity of those reports called into question. If a Taliban lieutenant and his posse are drone-struck, the local warlord can claim it was a peaceful civilian wedding and score some PR points.
I'm not justifying it, mind you. Commoditization of lethal force is something that scares me. I'm just pointing out the fog of war is particularly thick in that region.
- Crito 13y ago> "On the flip side, I've also heard the authenticity of those reports called into question. If a Taliban lieutenant and his posse are drone-struck, the local warlord can claim it was a peaceful civilian wedding and score some PR points." Either way, for some purposes it does not matter. Either the surviving community members are being lied to and told the victims were civilians, or the victims really were civilians, but in both cases they walk away with the notion that America is blowing up civilians. That is how you "make more terrorists". If America wants to avoid getting caught in that sort of situation, they need to make it seem implausible that that they were involved. As long as America is droning 'baddies', the possibility that they are nailing some civilians too remains.