• RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    That’s because Americans could not stomach killing enough innocent people to win the war like we had in previous wars. The US military could have depopulated Afghanistan if the citizens of the US would have permitted it.

    If an invading army is attacking America there’s little reason to believe the citizens wouldn’t be ok with killing every invader.

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        3 months ago

        depopulate is a pretty weird way to say “genocide”….

        Genocides suggest that people remain and/or suggests killing a single ethnic group. Depopulate means killing everyone. The choice of “depopulate” was intentional as I believe had the US military wanted to they had enough ordinance to kill literally everything in Afghanistan and Iraq.