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

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350 points tepidandroid | 3 comments | 19 Sep 19 16:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | 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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alpb ◴[20 Sep 19 08:02 UTC] No.21024258[source]▶
> 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

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yakshaving_jgt ◴[20 Sep 19 08:48 UTC] No.21024521[source]▶
> When you drop bombs on people out of nowhere, that's called terrorism

Only if the motive for dropping those bombs is to advance a political/ideological agenda.

We need to be very clear that "terrorism" has a very specific meaning. It's not just a group or individual who terrorises.

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misja ◴[20 Sep 19 09:14 UTC] No.21024699[source]▶
Genuine question: if the motivation for this bombing was not political or ideological, what was it then?
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1. lopmotr ◴[20 Sep 19 09:20 UTC] No.21024726[source]▶
I think terrorism is killing random members of a population to scare the others into some political or ideological change. It wouldn't count if it was targeted at fighters and civilians got killed by accident.
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2. misja ◴[20 Sep 19 09:28 UTC] No.21024772[source]▶
That sounds like a reasonable definition. But how would this definition qualify the Taliban attacks on military bases and police stations in Afghanistan?
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3. klagermkii ◴[20 Sep 19 11:25 UTC] No.21025385[source]▶
I think one would need to put something like that as a guerrilla war.

There needs to be a distinction between:

* attacking civilians (terrorism)

* attacking The System, but going for softer targets and not taking its military might directly head on (guerilla war)

* attacking The System, in a Military v Military setting (regular warfare)

While there are groups that will never have the direct strength to take a head on fight, I think it's beneficial to have a category showing that they limit their targets to agents of the system rather than any random civilian.