None of these commanders were "on the ground", the decision to kill a bunch of Afghan kids was made by people looking at drone footage on video screens. The main threat to US forces doing the targeting was lower back pain and eye strain.https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/1438945511344648192 …
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The opening words of the Declaration of Independence proclaim that "all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life" There is no way to reconcile those words with murder of innocents of any country by drone.
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This most execrable part of our foreign policy is the one on which there is absolute bipartisan agreement. Military bills sail through a gridlocked Congress, amended only if the amounts are judged too small. For twenty years, there has been no one to vote for to put a stop to it
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"No disciplinary action expected". The proper punishment here is to put the commanders and analysts in a pickup truck and make them drive around Hadhramaut for a few days delivering water and groceries, trying not to look suspicious from above.https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1438936911259779080 …
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A very interesting thread on how US drone strikes are conducted from a former practitioner:https://twitter.com/marcgarlasco/status/1439000985024794624 …
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