Killing enemies and innocents with drones ... a winner or loser?

A Yemeni man who went to high school in the U.S. was set to testify in a senate hearing on Obama's drone program. He points out that while an al quaida official and two or three of his crew were killed, the explosion scared hell out of the innocent people of his village -- and the result will be Al Qaida using the incident to show how hateful the U.S. is, and that we simply want to kill Muslims. And they'll use that propaganda to recruit terrorists.

He may have a point. Q: Are we winning or losing with these "targeted" drone attacks? Is killing a few Al Qaida people worth antagonizing all the people who live in that region? Are we really safer killing a few enemies while at the same time antagonizing hundreds, if not thousands of innocents?

There should be little doubt the result of our killer drone programs guarantees our war on terror will go on forever. And maybe that's the real purpose!

When people from the old world came here with gun powder they quickly used the advantage to loot and kill the less technologically advanced people here. Of course the added advantage of germ warfare was to prove devastating to the natives. Not much as changed. When you have an advantage you use it. It is always easy to drum up a reason outside of the true reason (greed). You enrage the natives by insulting their faith or raping their women then when they awkwardly retaliate you mow them down with righteous indignation and manifest destiny.

This scheme will prove as profitable as the war on drugs to the elite and sadly, just continue to cause suffering for the rest of us...

When people from the old world came here with gun powder they quickly used the advantage

The contradictions are fast and furious.........first, you argue that nobody should interfere with your right to your guns and your right to defend camp FEMA, and then you deny the same to your government.

Not every Drone attack is an atrocity, and certainly innocents have died, but scaling back from the 100 of thousands of innocents who have died in recent conflicts because the response was destroying infrastructure and types of munitions are now harming the population......yep.....those drone attacks look pretty good.......and you using your gun to shoot a robber is better than the alternative........but you could put your gun down and not risk harming the bad guy and have a discussion.

You missed the main point...If I had built my FEMA camp on the "burglars " property then would I be justified in defending myself ?...this is a waste of time anyway...Americans don't give a flying Fk about children in other countries, only their pampered spoiled rotten little brats are of any value at all. Well at least the ones they don't abort.

Just read this online and thought it fit here:

The
United States government does not run its foreign policy on any more
enlightened or humane premise than it does its prisons.



The
refrain "we are creating enemies faster than we are killing (or capturing)
them" is a bit of truth that gets leaked to the media occasionally in recent
years. Sometimes the sentiment is voiced
by even the most senior military commanders and applied variously to any of
several strategies, including night raids in Afghanistan, check points in Iraq,
the prison at Guantánamo, and drone
attacks in Yemen and Pakistan.

Face it, along with most of his pronouncements, GWB got it wrong about why the Muslims hate us. They don't hate us for our freedoms. They hate us for our foreign policy. Reality.

somebody tell me, just where are we headed?

Considering that the drones are rarely if ever seen... we should've denied responsibility and used disinformation to blame it on allah.

PkrBum wrote:Considering that the drones are rarely if ever seen... we should've denied responsibility and used disinformation to blame it on allah.

Bold move... That just might work.

*****CHUCKLE*****

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzfCgycpoqs

Wordslinger wrote:A Yemeni man who went to high school in the U.S. was set to testify in a senate hearing on Obama's drone program. He points out that while an al quaida official and two or three of his crew were killed, the explosion scared hell out of the innocent people of his village -- and the result will be Al Qaida using the incident to show how hateful the U.S. is, and that we simply want to kill Muslims. And they'll use that propaganda to recruit terrorists.

He may have a point. Q: Are we winning or losing with these "targeted" drone attacks? Is killing a few Al Qaida people worth antagonizing all the people who live in that region? Are we really safer killing a few enemies while at the same time antagonizing hundreds, if not thousands of innocents?

There should be little doubt the result of our killer drone programs guarantees our war on terror will go on forever. And maybe that's the real purpose!

Stop supporting and covering for the terrorists and the drones won't appear anymore. It is simple logic. Besides, these are high tech, well paying, large bonus getting when you reenlist jobs. We need all the jobs we can get and if we can cap a few bad guys in the process, good times.