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Comment by decoyworker | Hacker News Reader

War sucks what do you want me to tell you? I've been there and served in Afghanistan. I wish this enemy would stand away from civilians and identify themselves clearly.

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And they probably wish that they would have your technology and manpower, but it's called asymmetric warfare.

I suppose, we could count the deaths to see who has the better part of the asymmetry.

Your call for identification and distance from civilians is telling. You would be in the right if the enemy was an organized militia. But these terrorists avoid military patterns of behavior/organization. So what is the proper classification? Criminals? If that is true, the US military would be judge, jury and executioner in one.

When "this enemy" traces it's lineage back to cultivation by support from the US government...

1. Stop selling weapons to terrorists for decades.

2. Stop toppling democratically elective governments and propping up dictators.

3. Stop killing children with vaccination programs.

4. Stand away from drones and identify yourselves and go onsite to find militants.

5. Stand away from civilians and don't run the financial operation of your global hegemony through downtown office towers.

6. Stop kidnapping and torturing innocent people at black sites.

7. Stop killing for a President who openly advocates killing family members of the enemy.

I wonder what the consequences would be for the U.S. of completely stopping all foreign military operations. It's probably a given that other big powers would step in to fill the vacuum. But other than oil what kind of resources would the U.S. lose access to? And how would that manifest in the economy / supply chains?

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