• ameancow@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        I care less about drone strikes against direct military targets and the like than I do about funding Israel’s ongoing genocide that has killed far, far more innocent people than any “whoopsie that was a schoobus” incidents.

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          Do you know that “halted” means “stopped”?

          And you specifically mentioned kids… Still waiting on that one

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          That’s… A good thing? The full quote from the article is:

          In October 2017, Trump abolished the Obama-era approval system in favor of a looser, decentralized approach, which gave the military and CIA officials the discretion to decide to launch drone strikes against targets without White House approval.[25] This policy reduced accountability for drone strikes.[26] After Joe Biden took office, he halted counterterrorism drone strikes without White House approval and initiated a broad review of U.S. policy on drone use.[25]

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            That’s better than what it used to be under Trump, but not better than what it used to be under Obama. It does just mean that Biden had to approve every drone strike, so technically any kid that died during his presidency to US drones is on him.

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          Both are worth noting. Any president is going to make some decisions with ugly consequences that will be criticized. If you are a creep on a personal level, imagine how bad you can be with some dissociation. Trump and pals rape children personally and personally spew out lies on a daily basis.

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      Unrestricted drone warfare is more an Obama critisicm than Biden. The only creepy Biden thing I remember was him sniffing women’s hair.

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        Obama and Biden both had to approve drone strikes. It was the first Trump administration that got rid of that requirement.

        Not saying that this makes Obama or Biden better, but it seems like Trump was even worse.

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          Yeah not saying Biden didn’t partake in drone warfare, but the civilian casualties from drone attacks were significantly reduced during his term as president. He only executed around a tenth as many drone attacks as done on Obama’s term. So it is not something that makes sense to criticise him specifically on, especially when there are definitely other things to criticise him on.