It's only clear that civilians were intentionally targeted by ISIS and AQ. It's also true that civilians who opposed Western military forces were killed. That's expected, because opposing a military force is an official enlistment.
Assange is the problem. You don't get a peace prize for aiding in civil rights oppression.
Manning exfiltrated around 750,000 classified and sensitive documents to Wikileaks, not just war footage. He did this indiscriminately and with intent to cause as much damage as possible to the organization he worked for. He's no heroic whistleblower, this was him exercising a grudge.
It's unfortunate that Obama commuted his sentence, he really should have been incarcerated for the full 35 years, given the seriousness of his crimes and the huge negative impact he had.
To add context, Snowden became trapped in Russia when the US State Department decided to cancel his passport while he was at an airport there on the way out of Russia.
> Assange and Manning's exposure literally cost the lives of Afghan families
Exposure like the footage they revealed of US drones killing innocent civilians?
> The U.S. post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, and Pakistan have taken a tremendous human toll on those countries. As of September 2021, an estimated 432,093 civilians in these countries have died violent deaths as a result of the wars.
Right, Assange is the problem, not the US military operations he exposed.