Re:Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage
by mc32 on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @12:00AM
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What's the alternative? Let them play out their wars in their own style (aka more Assad-style conflicts but with Iran and Saudi as well as Turkey and Israel doing the business of war)?
While I think GWB and Obama both did us a great disservice in stirring up things in the ME. We also cannot just let them "duke it out". It'd be 10x-50x worse.
Pulling out now --would exacerbate the issue incredibly. Only people on the extreme right and extreme left believe that to be our best option.
We killed many, many Germans and many Japanese, in indiscriminate carpet bombing campaigns. Not many of those kids with "dead dads" became terrorists.
The USSR did some pretty nasty things in Afghanistan. You don't have Afghani terrorists going over to Russia and getting theirs.
Right now, to a kid growing up in many of these countries, the face of America is our President (...) and the sound of an American drone on the horizon. Now, one of these days, one of those drones pops his dad. In twenty years, that kid is a terrorist.
Our drone program is basically, the exact thing you'd do if you wanted to guarantee that there'd still be terrorists in the Middle East in two decades, because we're practically founding those terrorist groups right now.