Reply #77

1. The war the drones are fighting is one that shouldn't be fought in the first place. The goalposts have moved all over the place since 2001, and it's starting to feel like the Vietnam War, when U.S. troops were fighting just because "we can't leave now."

2. The lives of the Pakistani civilians who are being killed are not "collateral damage." They are real people with real families who love them--and who live in a revenge-based culture. Each civilian killed by drones has relatives who will be duty bound by their culture to take revenge, i.e. more "terrorists."

Our government is wasting $250 million PER DAY on a war with no clear purpose (FACT: You'll never get rid of all the people who hate the U.S. Never, and your attempts to kill them off will just piss off more people. This isn't a government you're fighting, as in World War II. It's a loosely organized group of people with individual agendas, whether to fight for Islam or to avenge relatives or to gain wealth and prestige.). Most of that money, over $1 billion per week, is borrowed.

Furthermore, drone warfare is dehumanizing. The drone operator sits thousands of miles away, and it feels like playing a video game. If we're going to fight a war, I want the combatants to KNOW in a visceral way that they're killing human beings.