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Lil69Leo posted...

Of course his drone strikes were not the best things but I think there are a whole lot less dead people from drone strikes than the wars. Both are terrible but one started the whole problem and at least now we actually find out about civilians dying from drone strikes unlike the deaths of all the people from both wars on terror.

Agreed, for the most part. Specifically the part about it being terrible.

Lil69Leo posted...

I don't think I actually discussed much politically on here while Obama was still president.

You think this is a good defense? If Obama was making terrible choices for the citizenry and you said nothing until Trump started doing roughly comparably dumb shit, and you assume it's worse just because you know about it, you have to consider the possibility that maybe you are neutral in all this. There may have been less dead people, but that doesn't excuse the action ethically. Hell, if less civilians were killed in the war, it's arguably more tenable, and that's ignoring soldier casualties.

Simply finding out about civilian deaths after the fact does not mean that the civilian deaths were negligible, after all. You would need to show that the civilian deaths in these instances were preferable statistically. And they might be, I honestly haven't looked. But I don't assume either way. I try to recognize and control for my bias. I'm not perfect at it but I do try.
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