• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Nevwr moved the goal posts. You just need a bit more reading comprehension.

    And no, civilian damage and deaths will not prevent the USA from striking targets.

    Look up Obama’s record of drone striking weddings.

    It is why i left the industry.

    Ive been inside DARPA and the Pentagon discussong collateral damage.

    Avoiding it is not a priority.

    Why?

    1. to be feared by tge enemy

    2. so the enemy cannot use human shields

    But directly targeting non combatants and hiding behind ‘faulty intelligence’ has been a common occurance.

    Remember the car full of water and children the US blew up as they left Afghanistan?

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      1 year ago

      You should really read that definition of avoid. Because you keep using it as an absolute term when it very much is not.

      And I don’t care if you were some white coat back in the States. I was on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. If we weren’t worried about avoiding civilian casualties we wouldn’t have gotten out with so few.

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            1 year ago

            you can always choose whether to pull the trigger. “following orders” is not a defense.

            also, that doesn’t change whether the us avoids killing civillians. they clearly do not.

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              1 year ago

              Following orders is not a defense… To a warcrime. Are you expecting everyone to be psychic now? They’re all supposed to magically know the intelligence was faked at the highest levels?

              And you guys are back to just repeating bullshit. I don’t even know why I’m still engaging in this whataboutism with you. Nobody is claiming civilian casualties in the US strikes while the Houthis have exclusively attacked civilian ships with civilian crews. Nobody is reading down this far anymore. So yeah I’m done here. You can shout into the void about things you clearly have no idea about.

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                1 year ago

                So yeah I’m done here.

                maybe you can apologize to the other user for lying about whether the us avoids killing civillians before you leave.

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                  1 year ago

                  Oh dude are you an alt? That’s a rather specific request. Lmao. I’m going back to watching Copaganda.

                  • Sybil@lemmy.world
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                    1 year ago

                    Oh dude are you an alt

                    i have dozens of accounts but not the one that you lied to up above here. you can still show some character.