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   mickey1339 said, 4 months ago

   I think some of these cartoonists are losing their grip on reality. If he is an “innocent non-combatant” why is he wearing a shooting vest? Or is this Rall’s attempt at sarcasm? Maybe I’m missing the obvious. That can always happen.
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   Stipple said, 4 months ago

   Drones are evil and boots on the ground is the humane way to wage war unless the soldiers are women? (drone is in the window)
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   I must be missing the obvious also.
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   omQ R said, 4 months ago

   Ted’s been over to Afghanistan. Afghan traditional male dress is usually with a coat-like vest ; perhaps not so much a shooting vest but a more practical version of the traditional garb. Or it’s a shooting vest. Don’t Afghans hunt, too?
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   mikefive said, 4 months ago

   I used to wear a shooting style vest when I was doing wildlife photography. Loved all of those pockets!
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   Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

   Better news, America will be safer!
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   Gary Kleppe said, 4 months ago

   @mickey1339

   So innocent people wouldn’t possibly need to carry weapons for self-defense? Is that what you’re saying here?
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   mattro53 said, 4 months ago

   Would that we did not have male combat soldiers.
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   Ted Rall said, 4 months ago

   @mickey1339

   It’s not a “shooting vest.” In Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries where war and guns have been a fact of life, non-combatants often wear clothes influenced by military “fashion.” You see it here when civilians wear khakis or, when General Hospital was popular in the 1980s, scrubs.
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   Ted Rall said, 4 months ago

   @Stipple

   Drones are cowardly and counterproductive. Drone operators have terrible to nonexistent intel about whom they are shooting. Drones send the message that American lives are precious but Pakistani lives are cheap.

   Also it’s hardly a victory for women to win the right to fight in illegal and unjust wars.
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    Ted Rall said, 4 months ago

    @mikefive

    Indeed, lots of journalists like them for the same reason.
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    Gary Kleppe said, 4 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    Our government acting in our name routinely invades other countries and bombs innocent people to death, Howie. Some of us do view this as a problem.
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    babka said, 4 months ago

    now your mother wears combat boots Go, Ted!
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    packratjohn said, 4 months ago

    I saw it as a fishing vest. Maybe we’re gonna switch to catch and release?
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    packratjohn said, 4 months ago

    And…. i was wondering; are drone operators considered combatants?
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    mikefive said, 4 months ago

    @mattro53

    “Would that we did not have male combat soldiers.”
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    Would that we did not have combat.
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