The US counted all military-age males in strike zones as combatants
Evidence
The statistical miracle lay, as it often does, in the counting system employed. It was a simple but redoubtable trick, as New York Times journalists Jo Becker and Scott Shane revealed: “It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants … unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.” As an anonymous official said, “They count the corpses and they’re not really sure who they are.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 485
Categorization
- XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s stated goal of grasping the principle of impunity built on twisted logic.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 485