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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: 0.221s | source
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wruza ◴[19 Sep 19 20:46 UTC] 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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sneak ◴[19 Sep 19 22:15 UTC] No.21021291[source]▶
I’d go with “secretary of defense guns down thirty civilians with a machine gun in Times Square”.

Why these mass murderers are allowed to flourish in our society is a continuing source of dismay for me.

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devoply ◴[20 Sep 19 06:30 UTC] No.21023779[source]▶
Because freedom and democracy. Wars of attrition for political purposes are nothing but state sponsored terror by another name. More than 16,000 dead and 30,000 injured. Talk about Afghan 9/11 ever year for the past 10 years probably 20 to 40 on which way you are counting. Who destabilized the country? Was it the Soviets or was it the Americans?
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1. dathinab ◴[20 Sep 19 10:37 UTC] No.21025133[source]▶
Both, what you mean is who keeps it instabil. But that's also not as simple as just looking at US drone strikes. Though they are a non small reason due to the mental trauma they caused in a lot of people in some regions, which IMHO is likely to caused more people to radicalize.