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Originally posted by King Maxx
Y'all acting like the US military WANTS to kill these people.
Oh please open a textbook or article or something.....
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THIS.
I'm sorry but what do you all want? There is no easy or 'right' answer to be made here, the government (who admittedly are often awful at what they do but still...) are facing tough decisions here. Yes this is terrible and sad and I feel for the people suffering with the effects of this... however we're sadly at a stage where it is kill or be killed.
Everyone condemning this so strongly - would you prefer the governments just never retaliate? And allow us to consistently be attacked by ISIS and have hundreds of innocent people be killed?
Wait till they hit USA with similar attacks that they've shown Europe in the last couple of years and see how you all react.
I don't think we should downplay the deaths of these innocents, and yes it is disgusting and tragic that this will likely attack little to none media attention in Europe/the states, but I would love to hear what alternative we have. They didn't do this on purpose, they assumed the people to be ISIS related and so they made the tough decision to take the shot.
We're at an awful, awful stage of our society currently, and unfortunately it's at the stage where we have to fight fire with fire. I feel horrified at the idea of thousands of innocents being mixed in and around ISIS and their living areas, but what else can we do? If we don't take these risks ISIS will just grow larger and larger and their attacks on Western civilisation will just get further and further horrific.
There's no right answer here.