If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet
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#2It's okay when we do it.
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#3Weddings and funerals are actually targeted specifically because those events are two that even highly sought-after targets attend despite the dangers. Also, the subsequent funerals for those killed at the targeted wedding would then be targeted as well.
You can either agree or disagree, but if you feel the target is accurate based on your intelligence the venue doesn't really matter IMHO. Civilians will be killed no matter if it's a wedding, funeral or some other random day.
Would we have cared if bin Laden was attending a wedding?
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#4But America isn't a failed state with a UN task force in place and it is not common practice to take large amounts of weapons to a wedding.
This is a ASB (alien space bat) type of argument as used in many a sea-lion argument "obviously Hitler could have invaded the UK" (only if the ASB's destroyed the royal navy from orbit)
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#5Not all that surpising. As was made clear during the Snowden leaks the USG doesn't consider human beings who aren't US citizens to have the same rights as Americans.
Re: If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet
#6Weddings and funerals are actually targeted specifically because those events are two that even highly sought-after targets attend despite the dangers. Also, the subsequent funerals for those killed at the targeted wedding would then be targeted as well. You can either agree or disagree, but if you feel the target is accurate based on your intelligence the venue doesn't really matter IMHO. Civilians will be killed no…
Yes.
Have you forgotten that we are supposed to be the good guys?
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#7It's okay when we do it.
Its not illegal when we do it. We are the government. Do as we say not as we act.
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#8I dont know which is tarnishing the American image worse the use of drones strikes or the Snowden leaks. What happens when our allies start to even say enough is enough.
Re: If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet
#9Not all that surpising. As was made clear during the Snowden leaks the USG doesn't consider human beings who aren't US citizens to have the same rights as Americans.
This is what I find the most troubling. I used to think the US was trying to still spread democracy worldwide but apparently internally they feel if you are foreign that means there arent any laws as to what we can and cant do.
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#10It continues to baffle me why the fact they're drones matter in the slightest.
They're not autonomous, they're flown by pilots who just happen to not be sitting in the aircraft they're flying.
Manned aircraft have killed huge groups of innocent civilians more than once, but apparently that's fine because the pilot was sitting in the aircraft.