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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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The President doesn't personally order every strike, they have a subset of officers for that. He usually just lets the military do whatever. I don't think Trump is going to LBJ on them, he seems a very hands-off person (i.e. he doesn't seem to want to do the President's job, let alone pile extra work on). He'll just let them keep doing what they're doing, which so far has proven successful in eliminating insurgent HV Ts (the ones that actually matter- killing 100 Pashtun farmers with rifles in Kandahar is worth less than killing a single high level organizer hiding in Pakistan) while keeping collateral damage very low and keeping Americans out of the line of fire.
edited 19th Nov '16 1:02:01 PM by MonsieurThenardier
"It is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just."
Evidence? Statistics and figures? The ones I've found for Somalia
and Yemen
put the civilian death tolls very low, possibly sub-10%. Pakistan's figures
are more disputed, but range from 5% to 25% civ-cas ratio, which is still low.
edited 19th Nov '16 1:05:53 PM by MonsieurThenardier
"It is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just."Short version, IIRC, is that the military's actually very careful and precise when using drones, applying them like a surgeon's scalpel, while the CIA carelessly cuts through swaths of people to get to their targets.
edited 19th Nov '16 1:12:31 PM by TobiasDrake
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The Last Week Tonight segment on drones covered that bit of Moving the Goalposts.
edited 19th Nov '16 1:18:16 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisededited 19th Nov '16 1:27:32 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The saddest part about all of this is that millions of people in the U.S.A. alone can see where all this is headed — we know we're screwed — and we're more or less unable to stop it from happening. The people that could stop this want it to happen, or at least are beholden to the millions who think this is what they want.
I take cold comfort in the increasingly likely outcome of most Trump voters experiencing buyer's (well, voter's) remorse after Trump is inaugurated. At least, I hope it's enough to prevent enough of them from re-electing him.
edited 19th Nov '16 10:14:50 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised