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Its not a strech. Not showing videos released from terrorist groups, might be a valid strategy. After all, terrorism is a means of political communication throu
by maze-le 9y ago
Its not a strech. Not showing videos released from terrorist groups, might be a valid strategy. After all, terrorism is a means of political communication through violence. When you remove one of the most potent channels of communication, you could remove the ability of these groups to 'terrorize'. Albeit, in times of facebook youtube and twitter this is not possible anymore.
So theoretically, a valid idea. Practically not possible and maybe even counterproductive.
- acct1771 9y agoThere are some people so desperately crying out for us to stop our government from killing innocent people overseas without our consent that they feel the situation is all but hopeless, so they start killing and causing destruction themselves to draw attention to the problem, and government simply doesn't want the voters to see that.
- acct1771 9y agoIn case this has to be said, no, I will never defend the killing of innocent people. But the big question I ask myself, and ask of others: Are you innocent?
- maze-le 9y agoWhat kind of nonsensical comment is that?
- acct1771 9y agoMy tax dollars pay for this: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/ https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/ Do yours?
- maze-le 9y agoMy taxes support this at least. Ramstein Air Base is a relay station in the drone wars and is partly supported by the German government. And I don't like it either. The scale of it is disproportionate and counterproductive. With each drone bombing, they kill 2 terrorists and create 20 new ones.
- acct1771 9y agoThen I'm not sure why you're calling my comment nonsensical. You agree with it. Cheers, have a good one.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoThat's an entirely different and far more rational argument for the policy. It does nothing to validate (and in some sense is the opposite of) the "secret messages" argument.