I would really like to know why these dead innocents matter so fucking much. We’ve killed literally hundreds of thousands of people since 9/11. Is it perhaps because they were killed in public and the story got tons of press coverage?
I’m more offended by the cherry picking than I am by the dead people because I got numb to the dead people a decade and a half ago strictly to maintain my sanity. The hand wringing here at the end is genuinely pissing me off. Everyone involved in boosting this story is as aware as I am that the median number of times we’ve done this per week since 9/11 is probably 3.2 or something.
Thank god someone finally had the nerve to stand up to the military industrial complex and leave Afghanistan. Now let’s stop droning people anywhere. We aren’t helping anyone but defense contractors shareholders.