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U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan

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Re: U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan

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Post by onetimemanytime »

stevenjohns wrote: post #52
gcatalfamo wrote: post #14

This 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.

No it's not. These types of comments are extremely inappropriate. Your comment tries to suggest that: 1. Terrorists are people with legitimate grievances 2. Terrorists are representatives of oppressed people 3. Terrorists have genuine reasons for their actions All of these things are false. People do not turn into international, careless murderers just because they experience travesty. Terrorists exploit this concept…

labels aside, if x state drops a bomb and kills your 4 year old playing outside you will want revenge, if you're from those areas. Simple as that, call it whatever you want. You killed my son for no reason...

USA should better rush with million dollar offers to families, along with apologies, of course.

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Post by drcross »

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #60
newguy1234 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also stories like this will be passed down for generations to recruit new jihadists/terrorists. They use this stuff as proof that the USA is anti-muslim or to prove that there is a war against muslims going on. You simply cannot bomb your way out of resolving the terrorism issue. This will probably have the same effectiveness as the war on drugs: lots of money spent....little to no impact on drug smuggling/drug abuse…

This seems to surprise everyone though, and I don't understand why. I remember in the early days of our being in Afghanistan, there were a few media pieces reporting that they remembered the last time the British were there, 100 or 150 years ago. The tone was very much that it was somehow surprising the Afghans brought this up again. Yet Britain and the US are built on national history, myths and memories. The US has…

The British oppressed the Irish for 800 years with a systematic destruction of culture and contribution to genocide which halved the population and then recently had the audacity to assume Ireland would be allies during Brexit negotiations.

Re: U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan

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Post by kmlx »

alpb wrote: post #78
gcatalfamo wrote: post #14

This 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.

> This is how you create terrorists. Um no, you are wrong. _What USA does_ is terrorism. When you drop bombs on people out of nowhere, that's called terrorism. Sorry if you're an American but you've got some learning to do about the biggest terrorist organization in the world before calling others a terrorist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRbnPA3fd5U

> A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS)

Then what does the IS represent to you? The good guys?

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Post by peterkelly »

olliej wrote: post #3
wruza wrote: post #2

Now 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.

For it to matter to the USG is has to be "X drone strike kills 30 pine nut farmers in [some US state]"

or "X drone strike kills 0 people but damages an oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia"

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Post by close04 »

oh_sigh wrote: post #73
kristopolous wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well we have been bombing a Muslim majority country for 18 years. That probably counts.

Counts for what? My question was about the basis for terrorism, not about the facts of bombing campaigns.

> not about the facts of bombing campaigns

Calling indiscriminately killing civilians something as generic as "a bombing campaign" is like calling 9/11 "a training flight gone wrong".

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Post by raneraiskari69 »

alpb wrote: post #78
gcatalfamo wrote: post #14

This 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.

> This is how you create terrorists. Um no, you are wrong. _What USA does_ is terrorism. When you drop bombs on people out of nowhere, that's called terrorism. Sorry if you're an American but you've got some learning to do about the biggest terrorist organization in the world before calling others a terrorist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRbnPA3fd5U

Nice leftist faggotry, but intention is what makes terrorist/terrorism not accident.

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Post by illuminati1911 »

alpb wrote: post #78
gcatalfamo wrote: post #14

This 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.

> This is how you create terrorists. Um no, you are wrong. _What USA does_ is terrorism. When you drop bombs on people out of nowhere, that's called terrorism. Sorry if you're an American but you've got some learning to do about the biggest terrorist organization in the world before calling others a terrorist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRbnPA3fd5U

Um no, you are wrong.

"A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout"

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Post by bananocurrency »

kmlx wrote: post #83
alpb wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is how you create terrorists. Um no, you are wrong. _What USA does_ is terrorism. When you drop bombs on people out of nowhere, that's called terrorism. Sorry if you're an American but you've got some learning to do about the biggest terrorist organization in the world before calling others a terrorist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRbnPA3fd5U

> A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) Then what does the IS represent to you? The good guys?

ah yes. the perfect centrist. if you aren't black vs white, why are you playing chess?

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Post by dabeeeenster »

illuminati1911 wrote: post #87
alpb wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is how you create terrorists. Um no, you are wrong. _What USA does_ is terrorism. When you drop bombs on people out of nowhere, that's called terrorism. Sorry if you're an American but you've got some learning to do about the biggest terrorist organization in the world before calling others a terrorist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRbnPA3fd5U

Um no, you are wrong. "A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout"

Oh ok sorry, that's fine then.
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