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| ▲ | derektank 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| You might not believe it but the US military actually places a premium on not committing war crimes. Every service member, or at least every airman in the Air Force (I can't speak for other branches) receives mandatory training on the Kunduz hospital before deployment in an effort to prevent another similar tragedy. If they didn't care, they wouldn't waste thousands of man-hours on it. |
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| ▲ | jncfhnb 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I knew a guy whose job was to assess and approve the legality of each strike considering second order impacts on the community | |
| ▲ | handfuloflight 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > On 7 October 2015, President Barack Obama issued an apology and announced the United States would be making condolence payments of $6,000 to the families of those killed in the airstrike. Definitely a premium. | |
| ▲ | guappa 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Most importantly they finance propaganda films like "eye in the sky" to make it look like they give a shit about not killing civilians. Videos on wikileaks tell a different story. |
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| ▲ | golergka 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Bombs and other kinds of weapon system which are "smarter" have higher markup. It's profitable to sell smarter weapons. Dumb weapons is destroying the whole cities, like Russia did in Ukraine. Smart weapons is striking a tank, a car, an apartment, a bunker, knowing who's there and when — which obviously means less % of civilian casualties. |
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| ▲ | guappa 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Remember when Obama re-defined so that "all adult males are terrorists"? That's how USA reduces civilian casualties. |
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