At least five world leaders are supporting President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize after his mediation efforts in several conflicts.
    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      vor 9 Monaten

      That’s one isolated metric. This is probably better than sending an army.

      • Cenzorrll@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        vor 9 Monaten

        It’s a dumb metric as well, seeing as warfare evolves and modern drones were mostly untested before Bush 2.0.

        Bush did the beta testing, it worked. Obama continued their use. It’s like saying more people used iPhones in 2015 than in 2008.

        • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
          42·
          vor 9 Monaten

          I’d rather have neither. I’m just saying some isolated metric doesn’t give the full picture.

            • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
              2·
              vor 9 Monaten

              You’ll end up pink mist either way, but a drone strike can be targeted more precisely, so it’s likely to cause far fewer innocent casualties.

            • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
              11·
              vor 9 Monaten

              If I had a gun to my head and was forced to choose whether a ground/army invasion is better than the drone strike, I would choose the latter.

              However, I’d prefer neither happen.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      vor 9 Monaten

      That has a lot more to do with the degree of adoption of drones by the military than anything else. They were bleeding-edge technology in Bush’s time.

      Anyway, the whole Obama/drone thing is nothing but lazy repetition of meaningless talking points.