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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by cyberferret on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:18AM (#12530763)
Does that mean you are 100% confident that these drone strikes are ONLY killing bad guys that deserve it? How many collateral deaths of innocent men, women and children do you consider OK before it begins to infringe on your peaceful sleep?
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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by 3pt14159 on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:49AM (#12530983)
We don't live in a Utopia. I don't need to be 100% confident that drone strikes are ONLY killing 100% bad guys. Tens of millions of people died in WW2. The answer to stoping drone strikes is increasing diplomacy in the Middle East - not burying our head in the sand and banning drones from doing drone strikes against enemy combatants.
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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by dforrestwilson1 on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:55AM (#12531035)
This is an easy thing to say when it isn't your country being bombed by foreign powers.
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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by wildmusings on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:22AM (#12530794)
The Taliban keep women and children at their militant camps. We cannot stop fighting a war, cannot cripple our effectiveness, simply because the enemy has decided to put the innocent in harms way. The US military goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid civilian casualties, but at some point you must do what must be done.
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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by megalodon on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:36AM (#12530895)
Ever wondered why they exist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by 3pt14159 on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:51AM (#12531000)
This is not the point. The point is not why they exist, or why we are at war. The point is that drones are better that stealth bombers. They are more targeted. Less civilians die.

I agree, we should fix our diplomacy and hopefully we'll live in a world without drones one day. But in the mean time, fixing our prisons is more important.

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by dingaling on Monday September 19, 2016 @01:14PM (#12532972)
> They are more targeted. Less civilians die.

Even "more targeted" would be sending in operatives to only kill those directly identified as combatants; no collateral damage at all to civilians, double-tap to the head and job done. Mossad used .22 pistols from point-blank distance for this purpose as their bullets posed no danger of exiting the skull and injuring bystanders.

But the USA doesn't do that, at least not for run-of-the-mill bad-guys, apparently because they consider the life of a soldier-citizen more valuable that a non-citizen.

That's what causes such distaste. One guy controlling a drone from Nevada is considered more important than some human-shield hostages in Pakistan.

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by wildmusings on Monday September 19, 2016 @02:47PM (#12533712)
Our people are and should be our priority. The duty of America is first and foremost to the American people. There is no duty to unnecessarily endanger your own people to avoid collateral damage, particularly when the enemy has chosen to bring non-combatants into their camps.
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