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It is depressing but sometimes we have to kill them - I mean the folk who enjoy burning people alive and creating sex slaves, not to mention horrendous refugee misery for everyone concerned - before they kill us.

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and your bombs don't burn innocents alive, men women and children? And don't say "oh the intent". The intent is there both sides, I believe the media sound bite is called "collateral damage", but the burning alive of innocents means the same

and your country has no trafficked women and girls forced to work as prostitutes.

and these people are most annoyed about what? Outside meddling in their countries. They are but pawns in geo-political manoeuvring that has been going for years.

We all live in glass houses and none of us should throw stones

Not going to defend the US, but do you really know what the Taliban did in Afghanistan? It's definitively not a "glass house" situation. It's a civilian massacre, rape of woman of all ages, prohibition of education, promotion of religious extremism situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#Human_rights_abuses

Is that the same Taliban that was trained and funded by the west to fight the USSR? Sounds awfully similar to the situation in Syria.

Edit: this is so far off topic that I regret posting it, but I don't like deleting things and will leave it in place. Can we get back to talking about Pluto?

I think it's relevant just what the 'West' did to each other over the last 100 years. We killed more people in single bombing raids than entire 'modern' wars. Precision bombing used to mean little more than attacking the right city.

This fact does not excuse the current behavior of either side.

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