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Stonehedge in reply to @Well_is_it

I think so.

Also:

Between 2009 and 2015, out of 473 strikes between 64–116 non-combatant deaths occurred. However during that period, the Obama Administration did count all military-age males in strike zones as combatants unless explicit intelligence exonerated them posthumously.

The argument for the drone policy is that it tends to kill fewer people than air raids and lets face it, the US was never going to just walk away...

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hoefla in reply to @Stonehedge

So the implication is the majority of those non-combatants were not military age males, and there were a lot more military age males included as combatants by default.

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