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by PhileasNietzche 1510 days ago
You're the head of an organization. We'll call it one of the most complex and wide-reaching organisation in the world. You have multiple organisations under your umbrella responsible for evaluating and handling threats to your organisation and personnel. They're staffed by hundreds, if not thousands, of people who have been performing that specific mission since long before you became CEO. Those people present to you a list and make very convincing arguments that these are all threats that must be removed. Like any other CEO, you have dozens of equally-, less- and more-important items on your agenda. I'd forgive even the monumentally-stupid Donald J. Trump for it, glad that I am not the one who has to make that decision.
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Something tells me you wouldn't forgive a foreign power for killing your children on account of "[having] dozens of equally-, less- and more-important items on [their] agenda". I mean even to say that you had a lot of more important things going on than worrying about accidently killing innocent American citizens.. says a lot. It's not spilled milk