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

(www.reuters.com)
350 points tepidandroid | 4 comments | 19 Sep 19 16:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.673s | source
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gcatalfamo ◴[20 Sep 19 05:55 UTC] No.21023650[source]▶
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.
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1. divbyzer0 ◴[20 Sep 19 07:47 UTC] No.21024148[source]▶
Comparing the reactions between this (seemlingly little) reported incident, and the attack on Saudi oil facilites (zero fatalities) is an interesting exercise.

edit: added word 'Saudi'

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2. kome ◴[20 Sep 19 07:49 UTC] No.21024163[source]▶
very good point, i didn't think about
3. smcl ◴[20 Sep 19 08:21 UTC] No.21024371[source]▶
Yeh the difference in the press' reactions between the two is pretty stark. However the most interesting thing about the Saudi attack is the faux outrage at the idea that _Iranian_ arms were used in the attack. As if it's totally cool that British and American arms are used by the Saudis to flatten Yemen but the idea that the Houthis can strike back with Iranian-provided arms is somehow a despicable disgrace.
4. zaroth ◴[20 Sep 19 11:44 UTC] No.21025538[source]▶
Do you think it might have something to do with one attack reducing the nut harvesting capacity of that town by 50%, versus the other reducing the oil output of Saudi Arabia by 50%?

Or maybe because one was a tactical op gone horribly wrong based on bad intel from the ground, and the other was a well planned and highly coordinated strategic op designed to destabilize international markets?