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

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350 points tepidandroid | 1 comments | 19 Sep 19 16:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | 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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oh_sigh ◴[20 Sep 19 07:36 UTC] No.21024098[source]▶
I hear this a lot but is there any basis for this? Were any of the 9/11 attackers widowed/orphaned by the US? Or were they just whipped up in religious fervor and an abstract idea of a cultural war with the US?

And does it go the other way? Do you create violent anti-Islamists when Muslims commit terror attacks? Were the orphans of 9/11 more likely to sign up for the US military, or commit hate crimes against Muslims than their non-directly-affected peers?

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kristopolous ◴[20 Sep 19 07:48 UTC] No.21024157[source]▶
Well we have been bombing a Muslim majority country for 18 years. That probably counts.
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oh_sigh ◴[20 Sep 19 07:59 UTC] No.21024236[source]▶
Counts for what? My question was about the basis for terrorism, not about the facts of bombing campaigns.
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1. close04 ◴[20 Sep 19 08:17 UTC] No.21024339[source]▶
> 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".