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[-] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

"I have no doubt that there are other forces which would have used the drone," adds the officer. "There is always tension between protecting our forces, which is the highest priority, and a situation in which you try to avoid unnecessary killing of civilians."

This is a comment about a "near miss" (ie where they avoided killing many innocents alongside the one possibly innocent person they intended to kill).

Their forces are the "highest priority," civilians lower down the list. This is how so many innocent people get killed. Because we can't possibly expose a soldier to a minimal amount of risk.

For any lingering defenders of Israel reading: if the scale of killing isn't because this is a genocide, what do you call it when tens of thousands of civilians are killed because the attacking army has a complete lack of respect for their lives and ultimately views them as disposable?

[-] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago

This has been US doctrine for operations in the Middle East since forever.

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