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

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350 points tepidandroid | 2 comments | 19 Sep 19 16:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.416s | 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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mieseratte ◴[20 Sep 19 08:36 UTC] No.21024454[source]▶
As much as I would love the US out of Afghanistan, there’s a war on over there. Yours is a disingenuous comparison.
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lawn ◴[20 Sep 19 10:48 UTC] No.21025203[source]▶
Which in reality should be the real crime. To start a war killing countless of innocent people... for what?
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kmjg88nvf8 ◴[20 Sep 19 11:27 UTC] No.21025402[source]▶
So how did war in Afghanistan start? Taliban apparently came to power via war a couple of years before US engagement.

Suppose that was a crime. Who punishes the criminals? Maybe that is exactly what the US sees itself doing?

Unfortunately to punish war criminals, usually you have to win against them in a war.

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tempodox ◴[20 Sep 19 12:06 UTC] No.21025712[source]▶
The Taliban were a tiny splinter group before the US financed and trained them. They have always been fanatics. Funny how they were not called terrorists while the US thought they could use them for their own ends.
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kmjg88nvf8 ◴[20 Sep 19 13:18 UTC] No.21026325[source]▶
Why did the US fiance and train them? So it seems there was another war going on? Who started that war, and why?

Also I think they changed their allegiances, so they became terrorist towards US people?

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1. lawn ◴[20 Sep 19 14:06 UTC] No.21026802[source]▶
> Who started that war, and why?

Funny you ask... It was called the cold war, you might want to look it up. US was a pretty big player there.

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2. kmjg88nvf8 ◴[20 Sep 19 14:23 UTC] No.21026983[source]▶
So you would blame the US for cold war? What would you have done instead?

Before cold war, there was WWII, and communist revolutions.

I don't want to defend any particular war, I just think it may all be a bit more complicated than a simple "we shouldn't have started any wars".