Comment by ceejayoz
2 years ago
> In the case of Al Qaeda, that might actually have been true?
Very clearly not, as admitted by the man himself. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/obama-says-u-s-drone-stri...
2 years ago
> In the case of Al Qaeda, that might actually have been true?
Very clearly not, as admitted by the man himself. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/obama-says-u-s-drone-stri...
That doesn't mention Al Qaeda? It just talks about drone strikes against ISIS, which is yet again quite a different organisation than Al Qaeda and Hamas.
So ISIS gives "hitchhike rides [to innocent neighbors] in the back of trucks headed for the border with guns and bombs"?
If you want Al Qaeda-specific cases, they take about three seconds to find. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/18/pentagon-dro..., for example.
edit: The Yemen case cited in my link above was AQ; https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral...
"They were an adult male near a target" is not a safe way of determining guilt for capital crimes. We should not accept it.
What is your point even? All I said is that you can't compare Al Qaeda and Hamas, and how they operate, and how to combat them. I never said that US drone strikes were/are 100% perfect, or even that I liked the entire programme.
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