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by trasz 1764 days ago
No offense, but 9/11 is nothing compared to 50 thousands Afghan innocent civilians killed by US in response.

(Edit: please observe all the downvotes, implicitly claiming that lives of Americans are somehow more valuable.)
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Darmody 1764 days ago
Maybe they are downvoting you because you're comparing the death of people killed by terrorist and the ones that died as collateral damage in a war.

Both are tragedies but both are different.

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trasz 1764 days ago
No, they aren’t - the difference is all about formalities; from the moral standpoint they are precisely the same. It doesn’t matter if you go killing innocent people because of religion, political interests, race, or money.
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Darmody 1764 days ago
That's where you're wrong. The US never went to kill civilians, the terrorists did.
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sneak 1764 days ago
If that's true (which I doubt), the US military is fantastically bad at their job.

Low estimates of the cost of the Iraq war put it at 185k dead iraqi civilians.

I believe that it is much more likely that the US military simply doesn't care much about civilian deaths incurred whilst it seeks useless vengeance. This satisfies Occam's Razor, too.

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ModernMech 1764 days ago
There are always innocent casualties in war. The US knew that full well, and decided to go anyway. They went there to kill terrorists and civilians.
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