RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoIran declares U.S. citizens, personnel 'legitimate targets' after strike on nuclear siteswww.haaretz.comexternal-linkmessage-square93linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
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minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 day 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-squareUranus_Hz@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day 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.
I thought that term first came in vogue during Dubya’s term.