US Has No Real Targets in Yemen, and It's Costing Taxpayers Billions
c/worldnews · u/NightOwl@lemmy.ca · 141 points
c/worldnews · u/NightOwl@lemmy.ca · 141 points
u/wellfill@lemmy.ml · 5 points

u/ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 25 points
Sounds like every policy of the war on terror.
u/bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net · 19 points
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u/CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net · 15 points
How else are we supposed to give nearly half of the discretionary spending to defense contractors? We can't just make a big pile of all the bombs, that would be dangerous. Dropping them on poor people ensures they are only dangerous for a brief amount of time, with minimal risk to the ruling class.
u/teri@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 points
And it costs innocent people their lives or makes it at least very miserable. Yeah, what to spend billions for...
u/reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml · 10 points
The "anti war" president.
u/HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 6 points
"Is this just an excuse to funnel public money into private military contracts?"
"Ye man"