Thousands of deadly U.S. military airstrikes have gone unreported

Post by nyxtom » Mon, Feb 20, 2017, 3:06 PM UTC

oh_sigh wrote: post #286

nyxtom wrote: post #156

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Seems like we now have the worst of both worlds now. A ruthless drone program, botched operations, and unnecessarily misguided bans.

Sure, but the question remains why bombing and killing thousands is not protest worthy, but preventing people from a few countries from temporarily entering the US is protest worthy. Call me cynical, but I bet if Obama issued Trumps EO, and Trump expanded the drone program, we would be having the exact same protests against Trump.

I think part of it is the fact that Trump is an all around jerk that inherently garners more attention. Bush did plenty of egregious things that didn't get nearly the amount of attention they deserved either. That being said when the WH issued orders (even the Visa waiver issue) that were deemed unconstitutional, ACLU took it to court.

Post by wamsachel » Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

theincredulousk wrote: post #319

wamsachel wrote: post #278

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Spare me, there's nothing difficult about deciding whether or not to blow up hospitals and children. This mission is not about freeing people from terror and was never about that. Rather, quite the opposite, we are there to terrorize them into being profitable to the hegemony. The propaganda about minimizing casualties is to keep civilians protected from the atrocities that they are sponsoring.

Are you sure there is nothing difficult about that? When you're reasoning against your own hospitals, and your own children? When a nightmare of a human being keeps his own children near him as human shields? If I'm to understand correctly, "We" are there to blow up hospitals and terrorize children, but also create propaganda to protect civilians from feeling bad? Can you describe to me this large, tens of thousands…

You're fantasizing.

The bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital wasn't some ethical decision between good and bad, rather it was military members getting orders to bomb a target, not being able to find the target but deciding to bomb a near by building because...that's just it, they didn't have a reason. Now, being the good guys the US punished these war criminals right? Not really, wrist slaps and nothing more.

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