Sure youâre the type of person that would have been denying the Holocaust in 1943
Trump has lowered the threahsold of evidence needed for drone strikes
He has dramatically ramped them up and has stopped publishing figures
You work it out
TO THE DEGREE that we can say what Trump has done with his power, it is exactly what you would expect. He has formally lowered the necessary threshold of evidence needed to justify drone strikes. The Air Force received a 63 percent increase in Hellfire missiles, the main weapon used by drones, in Trumpâs 2017 budget.
Through executive order, Trump has made drone strikes less transparent by eliminating an Obama-era mandate that compelled the Defense Department to report its civilian death toll estimate every year. The New York Times described this as a move that increases âthe secrecy that cloaks one of the most contentious aspects of the fight against terrorists.â
What we do know is that the Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates that the U.S. carried out about 1,000 airstrikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen in 2016 â that is, strikes by both drones and manned aircraft. So far in 2019, they believe that the U.S. has conducted 5,425 airstrikes, five times as many. In the month of September, the U.S. upped the pace to almost 40 airstrikes per day.
Yes but ISIS wiped out. Youâve no idea how many civilians died, nor do I. Personally I donât care whether the dead were ISIS members or those that supported and aided them
It was Obama that put in the place the structure to wipe ISIS out
Trump did effectively nothing
In fact if you really want to credit somebody for wiping out ISIS, itâs the likes of Soleimani, he did far more to wipe out ISIS than Trump ever did
And the ideology is not wiped out
Trump is the greatest recruiting sergeant there is for both Islamist terror ie. ISIS ideology and perfectly legitimate uprising against US presence as in Iraq, same as Bush was in his time
No difference
He has made a declaration of war on Iran and the US cannot complain whenever it feels a backlash, because Iran is comfortably the lesser of two evils here
Youâd only think that if your view of the world was based on a sort Rambo-type Hollywood understanding
It is, so thatâs how you think, and ssadly most Americans have the same sort of understanding
Iran has far from clean hands but the USâs are caked in shit
I didnât even mention the one place they were wanted and needed, which was as a buffer between the Kurds and the Turks, and how Trump stabbed the Kurds in the back
The USâs carry on in the region for many decades and especially under this regime and the last Republlican regime simply cannot be defended
They have been a total disgrace to humanity and still gullible fools like you think theyâre âthe good guyâ because of a child-like Hollywood understanding
Of course Obamaâs drone strikes killed civilians and that was disgraceful
Still chicken feed compared to Trump
It isnât people who thought Obama was a flawed but on the whole decent man and decent enough president that have the cognitive dissonance
Itâs the Trump cultists who claimed to be anti-war and have turned out to be blood thirsty savages who actively want war, it was always obvious thatâs what they were
And when thatâs pointed out on this forum, the usual suspects squeal like babies
