▲ 488 ▼ Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers (www.aljazeera.com) submitted 2 years ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 244 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) As does america have non-combat elements too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) The US army does indeed, and they would be valid military targets. People working for the EPA, perhaps not so much. Hezbollah however is structured towards support for the militant arm, as the Lebanese government handles civilian tasks. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago Well it seems its up to the attacker to decide what is considered valid military targets. Al Qaeda viewed 9/11 as a valid military target. Indiscriminate killing is always bad, no matter how targeted you think it is. In this case it was mass maiming, oh and a few kids died right? That'll teach em to stop being bad people won't it! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) The US army does indeed, and they would be valid military targets. People working for the EPA, perhaps not so much. Hezbollah however is structured towards support for the militant arm, as the Lebanese government handles civilian tasks. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago Well it seems its up to the attacker to decide what is considered valid military targets. Al Qaeda viewed 9/11 as a valid military target. Indiscriminate killing is always bad, no matter how targeted you think it is. In this case it was mass maiming, oh and a few kids died right? That'll teach em to stop being bad people won't it! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago Well it seems its up to the attacker to decide what is considered valid military targets. Al Qaeda viewed 9/11 as a valid military target. Indiscriminate killing is always bad, no matter how targeted you think it is. In this case it was mass maiming, oh and a few kids died right? That'll teach em to stop being bad people won't it! permalink fedilink source parent