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It's certainly sad that several innocents have been killed by a drone strike.

However, isn't that just the usual "collateral damage" on the Current President's personal "kill list"? why is this news? are a few Westerners worth so much more than hundreds or thousands of Pakistani and Afghan people?

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This is one of the upsetting things about the transparency of the accident. It's unique given the long held opacity of the civilian casualties racked up by the program, including innocent people making their ways to weddings and funerals. The apologies here are welcomed, but it makes the humanitarian miss them in the silence blanketing the deaths of non-Western civilians.

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