Dude, I never thought I'd see your mind boggled by something. I imagine this close-up onto the country house featured in The Godfather, going through a window...and you're looking at a laptop, all head-tilty. And going "Wut?!?" repeatedly. Wouldn't blame you, either.
Agreed. It's probably the one major thing that really bothers me about Obama - and unfortunately is something that none of the major viable candidates would be willing to change.
What really floors me is Gibbs' just bald-faced callousness about the whole thing. Not even a "well, it was a regrettable mistake." Just straight up "Can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs!" heartlessness.
If someone is a pacifist, that's great, although not realistic in the world we live in. If one recognizes the sad necessity for violence in today's world, one should also recognize that the percentage of innocent deaths under the drone program is far below that of any other means we have used to combat those who would destroy us. If you believe that a complete cessation of all military activity by the United States against terrorist organizations would have a positive effect, please explain your position. If you think you have a better way of combating them, please explain that as well.
do you disagree with the position that the kind of war we're fighting now has at least equal chances to create radical terrorists who hate the united states as kill them? Why fight a zero sum game?
i swear to God, it will never cease to amaze me how many ways people will try to rationalize killing children. It is like there are two types of people: those who know that child murder is unequivocally wrong and unconscionable and those who think that it can be excused with nuanced appeals to alleged pragmatism.
We will simply have to agree to disagree on the issue of child murder.
Here we go again. Clearly you prefer an avowed mass-killer of babies to a potential mass-killer of babies. I get it. You've made it clear that as long as Obama doesn't switch to the Republican Party, there's nothing he could do which would lose your vote. Fine.
What's great about your argument is that you can't ethically vote for Gary Johnson either. Voting for any POTUS is unethical and therefore makes one Hitlerbot 3.1
I don't think you thought your cunning plan all the way through.
So we just handwave every death of NON-combatants in this "war zone?"
I mean, hell, even I'll admit that in any war we are going to have some collateral damage. But the proper response is to REGRET the collateral damage, maybe even try harder going forward to do better at limiting it.
Not say: "OH WELL THEM'S THE BREAKS!" and just keep on bombing willy-nilly.
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Date: 2012-10-26 12:42 am (UTC)I imagine this close-up onto the country house featured in The Godfather, going through a window...and you're looking at a laptop, all head-tilty. And going "Wut?!?" repeatedly.
Wouldn't blame you, either.
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Date: 2012-10-25 08:02 pm (UTC)What really floors me is Gibbs' just bald-faced callousness about the whole thing. Not even a "well, it was a regrettable mistake." Just straight up "Can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs!" heartlessness.
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Date: 2012-10-25 09:21 pm (UTC)We will simply have to agree to disagree on the issue of child murder.
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Date: 2012-10-26 01:23 am (UTC)I don't think you thought your cunning plan all the way through.
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Date: 2012-10-26 06:48 am (UTC)Warzone is in a country that has asked/agreed to have drone strikes to help rid them of their militants?
No. Sympathy.
Nature is war.
War is a bitch.
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Date: 2012-10-26 09:10 pm (UTC)The world is not a nice place.
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Date: 2012-10-26 09:13 pm (UTC)http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/09/27/us_perceives_tacit_consent_from_pakistan_on_drone_strikes
Further:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/10/21/about-those-billions.html
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Date: 2012-10-26 12:54 pm (UTC)I mean, hell, even I'll admit that in any war we are going to have some collateral damage. But the proper response is to REGRET the collateral damage, maybe even try harder going forward to do better at limiting it.
Not say: "OH WELL THEM'S THE BREAKS!" and just keep on bombing willy-nilly.
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