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I was thinking that. There is no control for this piece of data. Could have gone up 1600% under another potus for all we know.
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Could have gone up 1600% under another potus for all we know.
It certainly does feel that the Obama drone strike policy comes up in political debates more often than actual real war atrocities conducted by the US.
Edit: Such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre
Stonehedge
Not that I'm defending unaccountable death from the skies, but wouldn't a lot of that increase be down to drones getting better?
I wonder how the number of air / ground strikes would have changes, had there been no drones.