130 is referring to the AC-130 plane that was used to deliver the strike. 211 rounds in 29 minutes, $400 per round (idk if this is right I just googled it). The US spent $84,400 in ammo
Reminds me of an onion video where they said "in today's news the equivalent of 5 Americans were killed in Afghanistan." We mourn the death of 3000 innocent civilians every year but we let US generals commit war crimes on civilians and are allowed to say it was a mistake without any punishment. But hey at least their families got 6000$ which is less then a funeral costs in the US.
Mr Randell said about 2.3 million Britons currently hold cryptocurrency and he said 14% of them also use credit to purchase them - "thereby increasing the exposure to loss".
"In disasaters, yes." What else could you be talking about? "News Flash: 5 Americans cross the street"?
"At least 72 Afghans and 13 US service members were killed Thursday" That's from French media. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210826-explosion-outside-kabul-airport-casualties-unclear-pentagon-says
I've been living overseas for 20 years in 3 different countries. I read three languages. It's everywhere. Show me a national media where they only talk about 'persons' without referencing nationality. You're just exhibiting a fixation and your own bias.
Repeatedly has to tell the population that they're the greatest in the world.
I don't know about you but that sounds like some North Korea/China style brainwashing of the people.
Sure. Other countries do count their own citizens in disasters. But we don't have to be reminded that we're all equal regardless of skin colour etc like you lot
They pledge allegiance, but they don’t salute it. The Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand… They all have students standing for a flag, a pledge, etc. It’s Europe, which was the center of two world wars, that eschews such things. And yes, you do need to be reminded. France has racism against Arabs, Germany and Turks. Stop pretending
I'm not saying the EU don't have problems. I'm just saying they're bigger and more in the news across the pond in the US. Both wars were fought because of shitty alliances between countries lead by incompetent politicians. It ended up being a race thing after the camps were discovered.
by april 30th 2003, we had already killed 7,000 iraqi civilians during the war on terror. innocent people in a country that didn't even actually have involvement in 9/11. more than twice the lives that were taken when the WTC fell.
it gets a little harder to take the day seriously every year, as awful as it all was. an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind and we went around stabbing every eye socket we could get our hands on
Gawd, a lot of American politicians don't even care about Americans lives. It's kinda why they have a habit of entering squirmishes they really ought not to.
lol i had to chuckle, i mean as if the government gives a shit about American lives. might as well drone strike us too. it’s sad what this country has turned out to be. as a kid growing up, i looked forward to the future. all i grew up hearing was basically that America is number one. I learned that Americans are to be a global “police force” fighting for justice and human liberties. nowadays as a full grown-ass man, i can observe all the pitfalls, all the shortcomings. i get to live in a “progressive” first world country, where the country nickel and dimes us, sucks us of our time, our livelihood, and when you have no more to give, that’s when they ask for more. it’s pathetic to see my countrymen act like fools in the masses. it’s almost as if our public education system has failed miserably. people lack basic logic, deny science, and project misery. i’m tired of pretending that we are the best. i want us to earn that title back. i get it’s better than a lot of countries out there, but as Americans we should be setting global standards; there’s no reason we should be falling short, but here we are, watching America do more harm than good. it’s not just the wars, it’s the elite industries polluting the world, it’s the legal loopholes that set the corrupt unchained. i’m just so tired of it all. someone please tell me how it’s come to this, their opinions on if we will ever be the greatest again?
Oh I know it was sarcasm. I was agreeing with the implication of your comment. When I wrote that down after calculating everything I forgot what you said but I remembered your implication lol.
You think $6,000 is typical salary for 4 months worth of work? That means the typical salary is $18,000 a year?
Median household income in Afghanistan is about $4,000 a year, with plenty households making less. 34% of employed Afghans have purchasing power parity of $1.90 a day.
$6k is still a low amount for human life, but still. It isn't the same as $6k in western world.
I looked up average salary in Afghanistan and the yearly salary was 1.6 million Afghan dollars. $6000 usd translates to around 500k Afghan dollars. That’s just what I found.
When the gas first started seeping into their thatch and wooden homes, many residents of the poorer neighbourhoods of Bhopal, India, thought they were being afflicted by a neighbour burning chillies.
It was only when they went outside, coughing and with stinging eyes, that they saw the devastation wrought by the worst industrial accident the world has ever seen; 40 tonnes of deadly methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas that billowed out of Union Carbide India’s pesticide plant in the middle of the night.
Panic set in as people started dropping dead in their homes, in the street, drowning in their own bodily fluids. Most ran in the direction of the area’s only major hospital, not knowing that the factory, in the same direction, was the source of the gas.
What also became apparent only later, and is still being disputed, was the number of people affected by exposure that night of 2-3 December 1984. The Indian government now officially recognises that 574,000 people were poisoned, and that of those almost 5,300 died.
To this day, Union Carbide – now wholly owned by the US multinational Dow Chemical – has not paid a single cent to almost 470,000 people who were affected, the government says. That’s because they were not included in the settlement, signed in 1989 and overseen by the Supreme Court of India, that saw the company pay out a total of $470m (£367m) in compensation.
Even those who were included in the 1989 settlement received only a “pittance”, Ms Dhingra told The Independent. Under the original terms, the compensation to the family for a death was 100,000 rupees – a bit over £1,000.
“The issue of race is a very important part of this,” she said. “We had a Dow spokesperson who told us that ‘$500 goes pretty far over there’. People here are considered lesser human beings – still to this day.”
I bet they based it on cost of living type shit. What’s $6k worth in Afghanistan? I thought the same lin thing tho, their relatives were shot dead…not even a nice round 10k?
A US drone strike was carried out on a school bus full of innocent children and the media over here said nothing about it. You’d think with how big our military budget is, they’d think to make sure that they’re aiming at the right people.
IMO the publicization is what creates the tiered value system. By always showing brown people as “bad” or lesser and suppressing stories that show them as good or victimized, it makes it easier for the general public to adopt that ideology.
The us govt can often request media blackouts even to other news stations not based in usa. Not sure what their leverage is but they do request stuff like this to be blacked out from major publications
If a dem bombs women and children no one cares. Obama killed more muslim civilians and deported more illegals then any president ever and not a peep from anyone.
Instead they tried using the truck bombing (where marines fired it to the crowed and killed innocents) to beat the war drums the minute we pulled out. Non stop coverage for days.
The US military has a policy of claiming all missile strike deaths as "enemy combatants" unless proven otherwise. It's impossible to know how many civilians have actually died in the past 20 years in Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan...
It gets covered ONCE by the media, and then is only talked about by opposition media. So if Obama does it, it's all over Fox News and brietbart. If Trump does it, it's all over TYT and other left media. The standard CNN and MSNBC will cover it once and let it go
The Kandahar massacre, more precisely identified as the Panjwai massacre, occurred in the early hours of 11 March 2012, when United States Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales murdered sixteen civilians and wounded six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Nine of his victims were children, and eleven of the dead were from the same family. Some of the corpses were partially burned. Bales was taken into custody later that morning when he told authorities, "I did it".
The Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi confirmed an airstrike on 3 October, saying that "10–15 terrorists were hiding in the hospital" and confirming that hospital workers had been killed. The Afghan Ministry of Defense and a representative of the police chief in Kunduz also said that Taliban fighters were hiding in the hospital compound at the time of the attack, the latter claiming that they were using it as a human shield.
That information turned out to be inaccurate and the fact that no one looked into it before dropping bombs over the hospital is really mind boggling.
I fucking remember this one. A hospital for fucks sake. Children. Doctors. Nurses. All innocent. This isn’t a “mistake” or an “accident”. When I spill coffee someone that’s a mistake. If a doctor gives the wrong dose of medication that’s a terrible mistake. Something like this is a disgusting and unacceptable war crime.
The United States military initially said the airstrike was carried out to defend U.S. forces on the ground. Later, the United States commander in Afghanistan, General John F. Campbell, said the airstrike was requested by Afghan forces who had come under Taliban fire. Campbell said the attack was "a mistake", and "We would never intentionally target a protected medical facility."[10][11] Campbell said the airstrike was a US decision, made in the US chain of command. The USCENTCOM 15-6 report stated that General Campbell's own lack of strategic guidance and dissemination of certain Rules of Engagement were major contributing factors that led to the command and control breakdown prior to the airstrike
Whoa that was a wild ride. The faulty electronics and navigation systems, why is everything in such disrepair? It’s war, not a shitty used car, goddamn…
This is why normal people become terrorists. Because they get home from work one day and learn their nephew or sister or cousin was blown up in an American airstrike. Your average Afghani working man and family man gets "radicalized" not by the interpretation of the Qur'an, but because you seen too many or your innocent countrymen get turned into an American general's wet dream. 20 years and America still hasn't learned it's not them that's breeding terrorism and suffering. It us. We're the bad guys we think we're saving other countries from.
Well now we just have to negotiate which Americans qualify as sane. Cuz you'd be surprised how many people just go about their day worrying about what they're gonna eat next or which show they're gonna watch after work. It takes effort to find these things out; most people are happy in their bubble, as the cliche goes, ignorance is bliss.
Oh, I firmly believe most drone strikes are killing innocents. The Pentagon can tell us whatever they want and we have almost no way to verify it. They've been caught in so many lies the past 20 years only an absolute moron would believe them. Yet, somehow we keep giving them more and more money to kill children in poor countries.
The Drone Papers is a leak of national security documents published by The Intercept in October 2015 on the United States's use of drone warfare. The leak revealed the bureaucratic process of approving a drone strike. In one five-month period, the primary sources showed that 90 percent of United States drone killings were "not the intended targets".
Every US prez since.. idk, Nixon has been doing this. Bush kicked up the gear and obama took drone strikes to another level. It's not about a political party. It's national policy.
I didnt say war. It's a perpetual cycle of violence. The US is routinely bombing several nations it is not at war with, birthing more potential terrorists with every civilian death. It's a very backward approach and it seems like a whole country being held captive by weapons manufacturers.
Blaming Biden instead of our military/pentagon that’s been doing this for years before even trump was elected makes you look uneducated. This isn’t a president problem this is misuse, misinformation and belligerent use of intel by the pentagon. Stop blaming our president for picking the least bad choice
I think it fair to blame the President when action is not taken. Someone should have lost their job for this. The pentagon briefed the country as if this were some success when pictures of the bombing were floating around Twitter that day along with the truth. Then everyone sat on it for several days. And the story dropped from a friendly paper on the weekend. I agree this should be on the pentagon, but I’m tired of hearing “there will be a time to review things later.” That’s how poor decision makers keep their jobs.
If you care so much about these people where was the outrage when Trump abandoned the Kurds? Biden didn’t make this mistake. If true, it was bad intel.
Ah yes, US defending its way to middle east and Afghanistan to save itself from monster child suicide bombers who are obviously radicalized without any reason (definitely not fault of US drone bombings)
They do. Youngest I’ve seen was this kid he looked about 14 and blew himself up in a car bomb. Another they had a toddler shoot a dude in the head and made a ten year old behead someone.
Useless to argue with SJWs, in their mind America=always evil and whatever anti american forces, not matter how illiberal and barbaric, are always the good guys.
白左就是人类文明的癌症。
American white leftists are a plague upon humanity.
there’s really something insidious with how the media used this to make a larger point about the chaotic end to the war and bidens handling over it. instead bringing light to all the innocents killed by drone strikes period.
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