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When he was in office, former President Barack Obama earned the ire of anti-war activists for his expansion of Bush's drone wars. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning head of state ordered ten times more drone strikes than the previous president, and estimates late in Obama's presidency showed 49 out of 50 victims were civilians. In 2015, it was reported that up to 90% of drone casualties were not the intended targets.
Current President Donald Trump campaigned on a less interventionist foreign policy, claiming to be opposed to nation-building and misguided invasions. But less than two months into his presidency, Trump has expanded the drone strikes that plagued Obama's "peaceful" presidency.
"During President Obama's two terms in office, he approved 542 such targeted strikes in 2,920 days—one every 5.4 days. From his inauguration through today, President Trump had approved at least 36 drone strikes or raids in 45 days—one every 1.25 days."
That's an increase of 432 [sic] percent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @04:48PM (2 children)
Oops, I forgot to also respond to:
What happens if you possess the means, opportunity, and espouse a motive for murdering me? Well then if I can't reason you out of it, I'll try to kill you before you can kill me. What a conundrum!
Might I suggest that you not threaten to attack and kill me? If I likewise don't threaten to strike you first in an attempt to kill you, then we should get along just fine even if we completely ignore each other.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday March 21 2017, @05:34PM (1 child)
You are full of shite. You can't spout this live and let live crap after openly threatening to attack and kill about a billion people who have made no threat against you.
YES there are some crazy muslims out there who would like to see your head on a spike. But they are the MINORITY. There are countless more of them who just want to get on with their own lives, but YOU want them dead. YOU are the one making the threats. YOU are the one who wants to obliterate entire demographics that have done you no harm. YOU ARE THE THREAT HERE. Don't give me that "we'll all get along just fine" bullshit when you have already made it abundanty clear that you will kill anyone whose second cousin looks at you funny.
Tell me, when all the Muslims are dead and Breitbart needs a new bogeyman, how long do you think it will be before they make up some reason to convince you to fear people like me and pre-emptively destroy me?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @06:25PM
Perhaps we could discuss this matter further after a visit to your optometrist [soylentnews.org] and/or a person who can change your mind about using lies as a means to persuade others.