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Not a whole lot of choice - you want the US to just let the targets run around? Send a strike team in each time? Drop a real bomb or cruise missile (even more c
by alexeisadeski3 13y ago
Not a whole lot of choice - you want the US to just let the targets run around? Send a strike team in each time? Drop a real bomb or cruise missile (even more civilian casualties - those weapons are larger)?
- mikeash 13y agoWhat would your answer be if the "targets", instead of mysterious and scary terrorists in foreign lands, were regular boring murderers living in the US?
- rescripting 13y agoAnd not regular boring tried-and-convicted murderers, but suspected murderers who have no trial or recourse.
- foobarqux 13y agoMore like those who use persuasive hate speech.
- alexeisadeski3 13y agoWhenever the "targets" have been found within US jurisdiction, they have been treated as regular boring murderers!
- gsnedders 13y agoYou know what? Yes. I do. Arrest them, try them, when they reach US soil and pose a risk to the security of the US. Until then, they aren't your problem.
- pantalaimon 13y agoThe funny thing is that this has been done before, but as there is not enough evidence to try them, they are locked up in Guantanamo indefinitely. I guess drone strikes are just a cheaper solution for that problem, with less outrage than prison camps.
- PeterisP 13y agoWe have a shorter word for 'not enough evidence to try them', it's called 'innocent' or 'not guilty'.