RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agoIran declares U.S. citizens, personnel 'legitimate targets' after strike on nuclear siteswww.haaretz.comexternal-linkmessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1516arrow-down127file-text
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minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down9·edit-24 days agoAmericans have only ever pretended to care about non-combatants when it’s convenient. President Obama even invented the term ‘enemy combatant’ so he could pretend his drone strikes were killing fewer civilians.
minus-squareconicalscientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days agoWhy would you post such an obvious and easily verifiably false statement.
minus-squareUranus_Hz@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoI thought that term first came in vogue during Dubya’s term.
Americans have only ever pretended to care about non-combatants when it’s convenient. President Obama even invented the term ‘enemy combatant’ so he could pretend his drone strikes were killing fewer civilians.
Why would you post such an obvious and easily verifiably false statement.
I thought that term first came in vogue during Dubya’s term.