• Alien Nathan Edward
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    99 months ago

    That’s the phrase we used for decades to justify murdering innocent people with flying assassin robots in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were “military-aged males” and therefore “presumed to be enemy combatants”.

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      49 months ago

      That’s what I was going to point out. Any male between about 16 to 45 was a dead enemy combatant, not a civilian.