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What if the drones are more likely to cause a 10x 9/11 event, by helping al Qaeda's recruiting efforts? I don't know that that's a likely outcome, but I think
by ScottBurson 14y ago
What if the drones are more likely to cause a 10x 9/11 event, by helping al Qaeda's recruiting efforts?
I don't know that that's a likely outcome, but I think it's possible. In any case, I think this idea that we can pre-emptively kill everyone who might possibly attack us at some point in the future is both dangerous and evil.
- rayiner 14y agoI object to the characterization that we're killing random people with drones. We are killing people whose stated goal is to attack us. There is nothing evil about that. Use of force to defend ones self, whether preemptive or reactive, is the closest thing to a "natural right" that exists in this world.
- flyinRyan 14y agoWhat the fuck? Citations please? There is absolutely no reason I can see to beleive that every person we kill with drones had any plan (realistic or otherwise) to attack us? Where do you get this? Because of Obama's reclassification of male casualties between 16-65 as combatants? Is that kind of word-game nonsense really so effective?
- rayiner 14y agoThere are of course collateral casualties, but I do believe every drone strike has a target that has expressed some intention to attack the U.S. We're not blowing up random Afghans for fun.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoActually, American drone attacks have a pretty miserably bad civilian:militant casualty ratio. Not that anyone has ever achieved a ratio sufficient in a fight against terrorist/guerrilla enemies to satisfy the bleeding-heart types, even when it's actually less than 1.0 (that is, fewer civilians than militants are killed or injured).
- lostlogin 14y agoYou have a lot of faith in a military which has done a lot of measurable harm in recent times for little measurable gain.
- darkarmani 14y agoSo the alternative is to use napalm strikes? Drones are way, way, way more targeted than bombing a whole area.
- flyinRyan 14y agoNo, the alternative would be to stop killing people. We've had one big terrorist attack about once every 10 years. It's not worth murdering innocents over.
- anigbrowl 14y agoWe've killed an awful lot fewer people with drones than we used to do with aerial bombing, even since the start of the 'war on terror.' It's like the difference between sniping and heavy artillery.