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So we should let Islamist terrorists continue launching missiles from schools?
This is the kind of question I would expect to see in a highschool debate club when a debater is losing the argument. It's an emotionally loaded red herring which is designed to derail discussion, not further it.
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Why do you conveniently ignore terrorists blatantly launching missiles from elementary schools?
You keep throwing argument, please back it with facts.
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This makes the optimistic assumption that drone strikes can kill terrorists faster than it can recruit them. You may be right, but imagine for a moment how you would feel if another country were operating deadly flying robots around your children.
Why do you conveniently ignore terrorists blatantly launching missiles from elementary schools?
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The difference is that the US, Japan, and Germany were civilized and had something to lose from continued war. Tribes in the mountains of Pakistan don't.
So instead of continuing to fight them, we should give them more to lose.
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This is the kind of question I would expect to see in a highschool debate club when a debater is losing the argument. It's an emotionally loaded red herring which is designed to derail discussion, not further it.
This is the kind of ad hominem attack used by middle school debaters to avoid refuting an argument.
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You do understand that Pakistan, Yemen, and Palestine are all different places, right?
Are you asking someone else or posing a straw man argument?
I'm just trying to get a handle on where you're coming from. The article was about Pakistan and Yemen. My comment was about drone strikes creating terrorists. You made a comment about elementary schools and when pressed for evidence, you provided a video from Palestine.
Is your point that because Palestinian terrorists launched a missiles from an elementary school, it's a good thing that drones kill children in Pakistan and Yemen?
Do you think that citizens of Pakistan and Yemen will be less outraged by drone strikes because of what terrorists in another country are doing?
Are you trolling?
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So just because that happens, we should overlook the fact that there are drones killing innocent children everyday sanctioned by the United States? You seem to be the type of person that says, "What if X is bad? Look at Y, which suits my agenda." Things like this creates more terrorism and more extremism. You may not realize, but it's not a nice thing to see your children and loved ones being killed by planes from th…
Terrorists who launch attacks from neighborhood schools should be ignored, right?