U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan

Re:U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afgha... by EliRivers on Friday September 20, 2019 @03:31AM (#21024067)

That's a tough sell when (large) parts of communities are complicit, hiding, funding, supporting the individuals.

I'm unconvinced; I believe it's not a tough sell. This is based on my observations of to whom people ascribe these crimes. They blame individuals first. Even if they should ascribe more blame to the organisations behind those individuals, those individuals are recognised (rightly or wrongly) as the primary culprits.

When I see news reports of such things, it's individual people that are presented as the culprits. News articles and Wiki articles name the individuals involved. While they do have organisations and groups behind them, if you ask people "who did this" you don't get a nebulous set of organisations; you get a name.

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Re:U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afgha... by luckylion on Friday September 20, 2019 @04:43AM (#21024487)

> They blame individuals first.

That depends on who those individuals are though. The media reports and reactions do change very much if you exchange some words, like replacing "islamist radical" with "white supremacist" or "christian fundamentalist" and "mosque" with "website".

You will certainly get individual names for each attack, the difference is whether having those names concludes the investigation or not. There are exceptions to this, of course, it's just my general expression.

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