Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents

Re:Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Ch... by pjc50 on Thursday August 16, 2018 @08:54AM (#17774183)

"We kill people based on metadata": https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-base...

Admittedly that only applies to non-US nationals outside the US, but the CIA and American overseas military operations have relied for years on executing people (and their wives, children, neighbours, wedding guests, and first responders) with missiles.

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Re:Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Ch... by hguant on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:03PM (#17775816)

This is a false equivalency, and your language seems to be intentionally politicized to provoke an emotional response rather than a rational one. It reeks of "whataboutism."

You argument is comparing the actions of the US military against a foreign enemy - and their associates - to the actions of the Chinese internal security against their own people. Are you saying the Chinese are at war with their own people?

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