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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%
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
they're really designed to reduce civilian causalties, and like usual the left just plays their role harder rather than admit they're trying to reduce civilian causalties
We were attacked in 9/11 for example
The response was against these terrorists
you mean the deals that let them get nukes for sure?
by the saudis yea
Afghanistan was freed largely from Taliban rule
yea
and we went to iraq
The suadis didn't do 9/11
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