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wruza ◴[] No.21020575[source]
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.
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1. whiddershins ◴[] No.21024632[source]
Now imagine

“France knowingly harbors 911 terrorists.”

“French leaders take credit for car bombing which kills 23 civilians.”

There’s a historical reason for this discrepancy.

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2. brosinante ◴[] No.21024734[source]
The US "knowingly harbored" nazi war criminals.
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3. rob74 ◴[] No.21024902[source]
That's still no excuse to indiscriminately kill civilians - unless you deliberately want to increase the support for the terrorists...
4. wruza ◴[] No.21025196[source]
There is a historical reason for everything. Who attacked US in the first place? It is not even reachable from countries they ‘democratized’, except for caribbean guys.
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6. megous ◴[] No.21025514[source]
Afghanistan didn't do that, taliban did.
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9. pnako ◴[] No.21025934[source]
Afghanistan does not harbor 9/11 terrorists. The 9/11 terrorists were all from Saudi Arabia, they did not learn how to fly in a cave in the Afghan mountains and their funding did not come from a financial center in Kandahar; Bin Laden was found hiding in Pakistan.

That war is absurd and should have stopped a long time ago. It's just fueling more terrorism. All western countries should leave the middle east, for good, forever (except maybe the odd ship to secure shipping lanes and stuff like that, but you get my point).

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11. captain_price7 ◴[] No.21026154[source]
Yo, u are aware Afghanistan and Taliban two different things, right? Afghanistan didn’t harbor 911 terrorist, Taliban did. Afghanistan doesn’t carry out car bombing, Taliban do. Now while those afghan pine workers do share land with some of the worst scums on earth, they are not anymore guilty for Taliban's action than some random french farmers.
12. gokhan ◴[] No.21026531[source]
If you think all Afghans are accountable, why stop there? Why just 30? US can bomb the hell out of AF, all terrorists after all.

If you don't think that way, assuming that you're from US, you should demand an answer for each and every civilian death.