Message from @nug700
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i heard there were civilian casualties, i wouldn't've done it if that were a risk.
Well in my opinion drone strikes are always a bad thing
Usually have civilian casualties and all that
Also makes it awkward when you kill the completely wrong targets
Plus you can only use 'em against countries that cant really fight back
i wonder if he had congressional approval
Well none war time drone strikes anyway
Wtf is Iran even gonna do about it
idk
They can't do nothing
The man was to important to the regime
I mean they can fuck up the embassy again if they act fast enough
Maybe
i mean... assasinating the second most powerful person in Iran without congressional approval might get him impeached X2
We'll have to see
i mean Trump's Iran policy is terrible
Well I mean
if Trump did it to "intimidate" or something, i think that'lll totally backfire, if anything Qassem will be a martyr
What president can threaten a country over twitter and then kill three prominent people from their government a few days later/
thing I'd be worried about is all the US personnel in the country.
Or even US citizens
things like vigilante justice could happen
well yeah, I'm sure this will stir up a massive regional war
revenge killings an all
Reading the dude runs a lot of terrorists activity so the strike could have been deliberate
ran*
Well actually drone strikes rarely kill civilians
This is kind of a strange thing that was pushed around in the media for a while
The supposed arguments for it killing a lot of civilians are that only 2% of the targets were high value targets, so therefore the rest must be civilians, which is kind of silly
Like salon and the guardian and all that based it on a "study" that looked at 2000 drone strikes and found that we only knew who the targets were ahead of time 2% of the time
That doesn't mean 98% of the targets were civilians
The figure was then changed to 400 civilians killed in drone strikes which would be a 20% death rate, which pakistan of all countries, who made the Taliban, then refuted by suggesting it would only be as high as 65 civilians killed out of 2000 drone strikes, or like 3%, vs. around 17 according to the U.S. estimate or, 1%
My intuition (aka educated guess) gives a number of 37
This would be at best like 2% of drone strikes result in civilian causalties
one of the main missiles we use is actually a kinetic missile, meaning it doesn't explode
it's actually designed to take out like 1-2 people
it would be hard to believe there's tons of civilian causalties from the smallest missle on our smallest plane that doesn't even explode
well i dont trust the US govs numbers
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