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Not. What a load of garbage. First off, they would never delay a strike over one girl. Are u kidding me? They would high five each other over their kill and go home and have a juicy steak and a beer. Innocent civilians are killed by the dozens and hundreds in Yemen every month. Look it up for yourselves. They blow up kids on the ground and laugh and say they were "Fun sized terrorists". There's no remorse. That's why most of the drone operators are alcoholics and drunks. As for the politicians, they couldn't care less. Remember they dropped two nukes over Japan killing hundreds of innocent men, women and children. The Japanese were going to surrender that summer anyways. Lastly, hellfires are not on a dime accurate. There are a lot of factors that goes into a shot from the sky. Just because you put a laser on point A doesn't mean it lands on point A. It could land on point B or C. Look how many deaths occur each year because the missile missed its target and lands on some guy's house killing his whole family. It happened all the time in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen. This is a typical Hollywood being Hollywood movie.

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The psychological trauma of RPA pilots is real. If you know anyone in the Air Force, you'd know this, and never comment on their character.

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I think there is remorse, but desensitization is required to do the job.

But I don't think this movie was very good at examining the morality of the job Existing.

First question, does one endorse assassination for intending to commit a crime? In another country? You've got criminals in Kenya evidently planning an attack (think the movie too convenient and absurd on the strength of the evidence from these scifi little indoor cameras). What is the argument for the Kenya police or army handling it?

Wish Hollywood would make a serious, thoughtful movie examining the incident in Iraq in which US helicopters targeted and killed the reporters with cameras (mistaking them for guns), then fired on the van of the Good Samaritan (killing him )who stopped to help (his children in van). Would we even know about this if WikileKs hadn't released video? Young Turks show video on YouTube, but warning it is extremely disturbing, especially the conversations about what is transpiring.

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Not. What a load of garbage. First off, they would never delay a strike over one girl. Are u kidding me? They would high five each other over their kill and go home and have a juicy steak and a beer.


And you know this?!? How? You actually served or know anyone in the Air Force? From my experience, its mixed.

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Well good question, but first we should ask;

WTF is USA doing in Kenya? Fighting for `freedom` again?

WTF they were doing in Lebanon 1983,
Libya 1986,
El Salvador 1980s,
Nicaragua 1980s,
Iran 1987,
Panama 1989,
Iraq 1991 (Persian Gulf War)
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1993
Bosnia 1994, 1995
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Yemen 2002
Iraq 1991-2003 (US/UK on regular basis)
Iraq 2003-2015
Afghanistan 2001-2015
Pakistan 2007-2015
Somalia 2007-8, 2011
Yemen 2009, 2011
Libya 2011, 2015
Syria 2014-2015

And you ask why those radical Islamist morons are blowing themselves up?
Isn't it obvious?

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If I could catalog for you the number of times we have delayed and/or cancelled operations of this nature because of "one girl" you'd be astounded. I take that back, it sounds like you'd write it off as a lie. I'm not talking about what I've read on the internet, I'm talking about my experience.

We make mistakes, we make horrible,unforgivable mistakes but we're fighting people who can't make mistakes because there's no such thing for them. If they kill 50 children it's no big deal (they've convinced themselves) because they're doing Allah's work (of course they're not). If we kill 50 children we don't write it off to some fairy tale's will, we own it.

"fun sized terrorists? "no remorse?" "most of the drone operators are alcoholics?" What color is the sun on your planet?

You're right on politicians, they're a bunch of gutless *beep* who'd kill a box of puppies for 30 seconds on CNN.

Your memory of Imperial Japan needs some work, some serious work. They were going to surrender? No, their code (a bastardization of Bushido) mandated..... absolutely mandated that they fight to the last child and that is what they were preparing to do.....read a book or two.

Dropping the Nuclear Weapons on Japan was horrific but anyone with a grasp of what Japan was preparing for would only come to the conclusion it was merciful. They were prepared to fight to the last child, we convinced them horrifically not to do so.

I wont comment on your apparent knowledge of lasers and the Hellfire missile, you've proven yourself clueless enough to even the most casual observer.

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how many ? i know there are hundreds of airstrikes committed by the US coalition with more civilian collateral than kill targets. Even the post-Nice French air strike killed dozens of children.

after all the military is trained to take orders , not to question them.

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How many what? What are you asking? We target people and groups of people who need to die. We work our ass off from beginning to end to try to make sure only the people who need to die actually die.

When you refer to airstrikes as being "committed" by the US I'm thinking you've already made up your mind and we are guilty.

If the imbeciles of isis were bombing the US or France or GB or Germany how concerned do you think they'd be with "collateral" or "kill targets" or "post Nice French" whatever that means?

We try, trust me, we fail a lot but we at least try.

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lol!! fun sized terrorist ,, that was pretty funny

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Where did you serve?

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I might add I like napalm , cause it sticks to kids :)

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