• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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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        Can you read? He halted strikes without approval from the White House, which means that all drone strikes had to be approved by the White House, which is the house this Biden guy was working from.

        When it comes to the children, a quick search revealed one article from 2021 talking about 7 dead children, but you’ll also have to consider that usually those things remain hidden unless somebody leaks it, because… Well, the government doesn’t want to look like the bad guys.

        “Calling it a “tragic mistake,” the U.S. Department of Defense admitted Friday that it had killed 10 people, including seven children, in a drone strike”

        https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-admits-drone-strike-kabul-afghanistan-killed-10-civilians-children-202430704.html

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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.