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We should use that money to drop bombs via drones 24/7. Eradicate them out of existence.
Errrm, and what, exactly, tells us who to "drop bombs" on?
Your skin is brown? DROP A BOMB. You're a Muslim? DROP A BOMB, AND ONE MORE, TO BE SURE. You're a goddamn Ruski commie? BOMB, BOMB, BOMB.
This is exactly what terrorists want: the impact of a terrorist act is, in the end, measured in money much more than in lives. They are not going to kill that many people in the end, what they want is to make people afraid and pervert all the freedom in a country. Because what they hate is our freedom, do not forget it. EDIT: BTW, being wrong (if I am) is a cause for downvotes? Grow up, you people.
Is the site behind paywall? I don't want to register just to read one article.
Is the site behind paywall? I don't want to register just to read one article.
They compete with The Wall Street Journal, which is famously about the only paper that made a success of on-line subscriptions a long time ago.
This is exactly what terrorists want: the impact of a terrorist act is, in the end, measured in money much more than in lives. They are not going to kill that many people in the end, what they want is to make people afraid and pervert all the freedom in a country. Because what they hate is our freedom, do not forget it. EDIT: BTW, being wrong (if I am) is a cause for downvotes? Grow up, you people.
The terrorists do not hate our freedoms.
The terrorists -- and specifically I'm talking about al-Qaeda and related groups -- want "atrocities against Muslims" to end, they want support for Israel to end, they want U.S. presence in the Middle East to end.[1]
Terror sects aren't B-movie villains.
[1]: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/military/july-dec96/fatw...
Key bits:
"From the day he took office, President Obama has sought to defuse the war and decrease public concern about it....
"It is in many ways an excellent strategy, but it has one serious flaw: it leaves the President terribly vulnerable if a significant terror strike should succeed....
[ Details the intelligence effort required. ]
"More than that, he has to be able to act. If terror is to be nipped in the bud, drones must fire down from the skies. If the al-Qaeda leadership is to remain stunned, scattered and incapable of large scale actions against the United States, houses in Waziristan must mysteriously blow up. American citizens making war against their homeland must die, even if that means they don’t get to hear their Miranda rights first.
"President Obama’s core war strategy depends on massive intelligence capabilities that were undreamed of twenty years ago. It depends on the substitution of drones for troops. PRISM and similar programs aren’t a ghastly misstep or an avoidable accident. They are the essence of Obama’s grand strategy: public peace and secret war. To cool down the public face of the war, he must intensify the secret struggle."
Is the site behind paywall? I don't want to register just to read one article.
Last time I checked it's a staged paywall. You get X articles for free without any action, X+Y articles if you register, there may be another "free" stage, and of course you can start paying and that may have more than one level. They compete with The Wall Street Journal , which is famously about the only paper that made a success of on-line subscriptions a long time ago.