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Pointing out that shooting weapons into the air in an area with
insugents around is a bad idea is blaming the victims ?

If you're dropping bombs on weddings the implication is thst
there's
nobody
on the ground shouting 'don't shoot, it's a wedding'.

If your shooting into the air with aircraft around the implication
is
you are trying to hit somebody.

Or celebrating something...

Would you care to be in the aircraft at night and have to make the
decision ?

There are 2 issues here.

The first is, the bombing(s) of a wedding party was a terrible error.
Given. The Americans don't bomb innocent civilians intentionally.

Our friend has been claiming it is policy.
A most absurd statement IMHO.

It is indeed an absurd statement.

The second issue is, that doesn't make the people - Pakistanis - like
you
more, even when they know that.

I'd imagine it wouldn't make anyone happy.

I've yet to see a solution suggested though.

A solution to ... what?

Here's the deal. It is what it is. American foreign policy gets instituted
and we get into the cause-and-effect thingy. Americans generally don't have
a good idea as to how they are perceived by "furriners". I imagine most
Americans don't care or would tend to think that the "furriner" thinking is
wrong. Generally speaking, the Pakistanis hate you. However, most
(conservative) Americans would like to believe that they ("the Pakis") are
all lining up for Green Cards to run 7/11s in Michigan.

You were doing ok until you got sophmoric about Pakistani's and 7/11's.

Is it any wonder the world is in the state it is?

What solution to you propose ?

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic
feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless
made so and kept so by the exertions of much better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) English economist and philosopher.