Maybe big differences in drone strike #s is due to US counting "side payment strikes" to the country in question?
https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/07/12/key-area-of-dispute-on-drone-numbers-number-of-strikes/ …
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US says 18% of strikes NGOs count as American aren't theirs. Maybe those are the ones that kill so many civilians?
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[patiently waits for families of those killed by faceless imperial drone pilots to revise their hatred of the US down several %]
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Right. Bc our role in propping up Yemen has nothing to do with the crappy thing its leaders do.
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