... and nobody will go to jail for this
U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan
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#12Can someone explain to me how the US military is still unable to distinguish pine nut farmers from IS Jihadi terrorists? Where is all this advanced military tech I keep hearing the US military is developing that people are mistaking for aliens?
The world's largest, most expensive military does not make mistakes. If they admit a mistake, it's to cover up something far more nefarious.
... Have you ever met anyone in the US military?
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#13we need accountability for this. it can't just be like "oops"
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#14This is how you create terrorists.
What do you think the children and friends feelings towards the US will be from now on?
People get radicalized for much less than that.
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#15This is an excellent way to cause more terrorism, well done Team USA.
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#17Can someone explain to me how the US military is still unable to distinguish pine nut farmers from IS Jihadi terrorists? Where is all this advanced military tech I keep hearing the US military is developing that people are mistaking for aliens?
The world's largest, most expensive military does not make mistakes. If they admit a mistake, it's to cover up something far more nefarious.
Every organization in the world makes mistakes all the time.
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#18This is deeply tragic. I wish the story gave more details. Based on the provincial governor's statement, it sounds like U.S. forces were relying on the Afghan government's intelligence assessment. I also wish news sources would be more careful about suggesting that there are autonomous killer robots in the sky. The drone didn't target anything. A remote pilot did, based on information he/she was provided.
The US can't sustain casualties and maintain any popular support for the war or the reputation of the military, so they use remote control killing machines on people the media don't care about. Unless you have people on the ground (and even then!) you can't really be sure of your intel. This media strategy allows them to not care about the quality of the intel. While the power of the state is still terrifying, it is vastly weaker than during the Vietnam era.
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#19American exceptionalism means they will get away from it easily as 'collateral damage'.
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#20Now imagine “U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in France” and feel the difference (which is non-existent). Then it goes on tv and reads the list of this morning’s evil men who must be stopped.
I’d go with “secretary of defense guns down thirty civilians with a machine gun in Times Square”. Why these mass murderers are allowed to flourish in our society is a continuing source of dismay for me.
Because freedom and democracy. Wars of attrition for political purposes are nothing but state sponsored terror by another name. More than 16,000 dead and 30,000 injured. Talk about Afghan 9/11 ever year for the past 10 years probably 20 to 40 on which way you are counting. Who destabilized the country? Was it the Soviets or was it the Americans?