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minus-squareFlashMobOfOnelinkfedilinkEnglish16•edit-210 hours agoAmericans have only ever pretended to care about non-combatants when it’s convenient. President Obama even invented the term ‘enemy combatant’ so he could pretend his drone strikes were killing fewer civilians.
minus-square@Uranus_Hz@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish1•6 hours agoI thought that term first came in vogue during Dubya’s term.
Americans have only ever pretended to care about non-combatants when it’s convenient. President Obama even invented the term ‘enemy combatant’ so he could pretend his drone strikes were killing fewer civilians.
I thought that term first came in vogue during Dubya’s term.