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Comment by rayiner | Hacker News Reader

> Walking down the road, boom, a lot of me is missing, shock, I'm gonna die, ouch, ouch, dead.

More like, hide out in Yemen for 10 years organizing violent jihad against the United States and protecting Al Qaeda members from the Yemeni government, then walking down the road...

It's tremendously demeaning to political protestors in Ukraine to compare their situation to people like Al Awlaki.

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I'm annoyed at myself for feeding this thread which has really nothing to do with the Ukrainian situation, but you make it sound like drone strikes only hit terrorists. I'm sorry, but you've been fed the wrong narrative. Take, for instance, this extract from [1]:

An estimated 286 to 890 civilians have been killed, including 168 to 197 children.

I'm not saying that it's done on purpose, and intent does matter when considering responsibility. But unfortunately, intent makes little difference to the dead.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan

D9u's post was not about drone strikes in general, but Anwar Al Awlaki specifically ("U.S. citizen and his teenage son.")

My bad. Fair enough, then.

I'm sorry to say, no one on the ground is worried about a demeaning post made on HN, I happen to know a little about what it's like, as a lot of my family lives in and around Kyiv and several of them have been lucky to get out of the protests with non life-threatening injuries only. Others we can't get hold of. Feelings are a little irrelevant right now.

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