• MTK@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    If you kill 1 terrorist and 52 civilians, um no you didn’t, they were all terrorists. Problem solved.

    #murder #justkillin

    • dmention7@lemm.ee
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      6 days ago

      You’ve also just cemented the idea that the West is evil in the families and friends of those 52 innocent people, thereby ensuring a steady supply of fresh new “terrorists”.

      • frostysauce@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        And the global war on terror continues forever, and “defense” budgets increase forever. All as planned.

        • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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          6 days ago

          yeah that’s because that’s not what happened, there were multiple targets, not just one. that signal chat directly mentions “mutliple targets”, it could be 5 it could be 15. if goldberg stayed in this chat maybe we’d know how many exactly

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      In the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US labeled any “military aged male” casualty as an “enemy combatant” even if there was absolutely zero evidence they were.

    • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 days ago

      As proven by the fact that the young men related to those 52 people all joined terrorist organizations after the fact.