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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by mtgx on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:01AM (#17566335)
Those are like 1 incident per year. So the US spends billions in conflicts to prevent a handful of such incidents, which could even be considered relatively minor compared to the regular mass shootings in the US? Is it even preventing them or creating them when it's killing so many indiscriminately with drone strikes over there?

Could that money not be spent better elsewhere to prevent other types of deaths? I think the U.S. and American politicians accept increases in budgets to the military so easily, that they don't even think about whether or not those resources are used effectively anymore.

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by vorpalhex on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:14AM (#17566438)
You spent thousands to be treated for cancer, despite only having one tumor a year? Clearly you should be spending that money on a gym membership instead...

It's hard to wage terrorist activities when you're fighting a literal multi-sided war.

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by rorykoehler on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:04PM (#17567587)
All the problems now faced by the US were created by the US. By continuing without acknowledging this there will no doubt be more similar future problems.
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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by acct1771 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:00PM (#17567541)
Especially when some sides of it have received your money and weapons....
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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by candiodari on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:23AM (#17567163)
Plus there's the issue of how many terrorist attacks there would be if there was indeed no response.

We all know the answer to that one: we'd all be living under "amateur" Taliban, Mafias and worse anywhere near any large city, with constant public executions for "sacrilege" and for "competing" with the Mafia, and for ... There would be no international (or generally non-private) flights, and so on.

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