I don't think such extreme tech is necessary. Couldn't we just send quadracopter-type drones with night vision cameras? Or would that be too loud? I don't know. I just feel like something could have, and should have been done to avoid this.
Those things are loud, and the enemy has guns. It's not like quadcopter drones are impervious to bullet fire. And that doesn't change the fact that its hard to look into a building to see what's inside, assuming that the windows aren't covered, or that important things might be in rooms that don't have windows.
more or less. To be fair ISIS does use human shields regularly, and they rig up the homes with explosives to inflict as much destruction and casualties as possible. It's slowed down the operations and fights against ISIS plenty of times which both Iraq/US has admitted. It's not really any different from how the west's moderate jihadist beheaders in Syria use human shields against Syrians and Russians. In the end you get a mixture of both...times when you care and times when you don't give a shit to get a few targets. We've seen it here, and we've seen it being done by US, Syria and Russia in Syria as well. Lots of reactions here are disgusting tho, people are easily susceptible to geopolitics without realizing it.
Yeah, that's what thought. Still think that some form of scouting robot is a potential solution though.
I don't mean to imply there's a simple solution, even if that's exactly what I implied... But I think there's more we could be doing.
Yea, verily, no civilians were killed during the Iran-Iraq war that was happening at that time.
ISIS are the ones intentionally trying to get civilians killed to further their cause. A strong argument can be made that the US isn't doing enough to prevent collateral damage, and no, the US isn't categorically "good". But to say we just don't care about innocent people dying because they're "brown people" in the way of "resources" is idiotic.
