Message from @everybodydothatdinosaur
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Apparently trump ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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
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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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You can see how the the blades open up and it just kills people by hitting them
You aren't going to get a lot of civiluan causalties from this
so as long as its only a few innocent civilians die its ok
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civilian deaths are inevitable in any war, if you can reduce the causalties, than it's good
it was recently declassified
But anyways yeah there's not that many civilian deaths from this I imagine
I could imagine it's less than 2%
per drone strike
pakistan seems to agree which is strange
maybe we shouldnt have ever gone to the middle east in the first place. IMO its just a bunch of brown people fighting over sand, they are of no threat to the US
That's a whole other topic of discussion
But the reality is that drone's don't have 98% failure rates it's more like the opposite
right so saying civilian deaths are inevitable
is a moot point
because i dont think we should even be there.
I don't know why drones are seen as so bad in the public mind other than a few badly cited liberla media articles
its not a war thats justified so to me even 1 dead civilian is pointless
well, those nuclear deals trump wiggled out of, maybe we do need to be worried