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Originally posted by Carseller4
Ignore the propaganda.
A terrorist was killed and it should be celebrated.
Originally posted by CREAM
Originally posted by Carseller4
Ignore the propaganda.
A terrorist was killed and it should be celebrated.
I hope someday you visit Pakistan. That's all I have to say to you.
Originally posted by Aliensun
reply to post by pthena
I'll wager that there is far more to this story that what has been given.
In Afganistan a drone isn't going to target two individuals unless they were doing something obvious to draw attention such as digging on a road to bury an explosive.
In Pakistan, the drones are used to target--not without mistakes--leaders of some ranking in the Taliban in vehicles and gatherings. So the reported killing of two young boys in Pakistan leads me to suspect that the story is bogus to a large degree. Perhaps they were burying a bomb and it exploded and a drone was blamed? How better to make martyr?
www.ronpaul.com...
Chris Wallace: But, for instance, drones; a lot of people say that the drones have been terrifically effective, they’ve taken out a lot of the Al-Qaida leadership, it doesn’t involve putting troops on the ground, it’s cheap. As I said, it doesn’t involve a lot of manpower, and it does strike, and it’s been very deadly in its effectiveness. So why are you against drone strikes?
Ron Paul: Because I don’t agree with that assessment, I think it makes things worse. Because if you have one bad guy, and you go after him and say, “He’s the one, he’s an Al-Qaida leader, let’s kill him”. But sometimes they miss, sometimes there’s collateral damage, and every time we do that, we develop more enemies. Take, for instance, we’re dropping a lot of drone missile bombs in Pakistan and claim we’ve killed so many. But how about the innocent people who died? Nobody hears about that. This is why the people of Pakistan can’t stand our guts and why they disapprove of their own government. So we’re bombing Pakistan and trying to kill some people, making a lot of mistakes, building up our enemies, and at the same time, we’re giving billions of dollars to the government of Pakistan and we’re more or less inciting a civil war there. So I think that makes us less safe, for every one you kill, you probably create 10 new people who hate our guts and would like to do us harm.
There's always 2 sides to a story, it is never one sided unless youre a fool that believes everything he sees and hears.
CIA Drones Gone Wild?
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the U.S. government doesn’t actually know who it’s killing with many of its drone strikes in Pakistan. That suggests the United States may well be violating international law.
. . .
[note by pthena, now for official statement]
John Brennan, President Obama’s senior counterterrorism advisor, has actually claimed “there hasn’t been a single collateral death” from drone strikes, due to their precision.
But that stands in stark contrast to the findings of such groups as the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, which has been reporting on the casualties of drone strikes since 2004. The team of British and Pakistani journalists in a report released in August documented 306 strikes from remotely piloted drones that killed between 2,359 and 2,959 people. The bureau reports that in Pakistan, it has found credible reports of 392 civilian deaths, include 175 children.
- - Ibid.
So my point is, drones can very easily backfire and cause the opposite of the intended purpose.
The CIA, a dirty bomb plot and drones: an interview with Joby Warrick
[CW]:Time after time the drone strikes themselves are cited as the reason for attacks by the TTP and others. Is there any sense of concern in the US intelligence community that the very results they’re generating might be creating problems for the future?
JW: You look at the words of these suicide bombers themselves, including Balawi, and they cite these strikes, Balawi in his martyrdom video, saying ‘Don’t think you can just push buttons and kill people over here and get away with it. We’re going to come for you in unexpected ways.’ That was his farewell message to the CIA. I think on some level they’re certainly aware of it, aware that [drone strikes] have consequences and that’s why in their own words they try to be very careful.
But on the other hand they [the US] honestly believe that this is the best tool that they’ve got. And that short of a much longer and more complicated undertaking of trying to change views, reduce the extremism and hostility which is not such an easy thing to accomplish, this is the only recourse they have, the only way of reaching into a place like the tribal areas, and stopping al Qaeda from being able to plan that thing. And they look at the people they’ve been able to take out, and they believe on balance that it’s made the world safer, or at least our world. Though of course the final chapter still has to be written on that.
Originally posted by Carseller4
Ignore the propaganda.
A terrorist was killed and it should be celebrated. [/quote
and I guess you will be quit happy when someone targets you for supporting the biggest terrorists of them all.. The USA government...
reply to post by earthdude
The pilots of these drones never get to see the mangled bodies of the children they kill. They might be a little hesitant about pushing the kill button if they did see what they do. I'll bet they are kept like slaves and not allowed contact with the outside world. They are the Borg, resistance is futile.
Right . . and you probably think Pakistan is some sort of named country in Old Testament apocalyptic prophecy of people to be destroyed by God.
There's always 2 sides to a story, it is never one sided unless youre a fool that believes everything he sees and hears.
Originally posted by milkyway12
Tell the kid to stop harboring terroirst and stand up and fight them. The quicker the terrorist to die , the quicker we leave.
They use them as human shields which is to bad. They support it. So kill them both. In my opinion.
Originally posted by Anusuia
reply to post by lonewolf19792000
the point of the story is that men need to man up and stop hiding behind toys .combat is one on one with an equal enemy . stop being cowards you little lost ones
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by lonewolf19792000
Right . . and you probably think Pakistan is some sort of named country in Old Testament apocalyptic prophecy of people to be destroyed by God.
There's always 2 sides to a story, it is never one sided unless youre a fool that believes everything he sees and hears.
You need to look at it in a different way, which is, God is not using US drones to extract vengeance on some genetically evil race the world needs to be purged of. These are human beings just like you and are deserving of God's grace just as much as you are, and we do not need to pretend the US government is the sanctified military arm of God. We aren't. Our government has been co-opted by global elitists looking out for their own personal bank accounts and care nothing about God.