Comment: It sets up

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It sets up

lines, though. That's the point.

If a drone strike ever hits a Starbuck's (or similar situation) now even a dictator would find it hard to argue they were "in combat". Without such clarity they could say "they were terrorists/enemy combatants" which would be enough for the public to excuse it.