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

(www.reuters.com)
350 points tepidandroid | 1 comments | 19 Sep 19 16:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Roboprog ◴[19 Sep 19 22:21 UTC] No.21021343[source]▶
Why are we there?

What’s the threat, again? I forgot.

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whiddershins ◴[20 Sep 19 12:19 UTC] No.21025811[source]▶
The anniversary of 9/11 is a week ago and you forget?
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1. Roboprog ◴[20 Sep 19 21:15 UTC] No.21031350[source]▶
Have they given up Bin Laden yet?

Isn’t it just a little ironic that one of our “allies” was harboring OBL?

Lesson learned: nukes are a VERY effective deterrent to foreign invasion. That’s what we’re teaching countries in the Middle East.