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In reply to the discussion: Well hey, at least he isn't torturing people like Bush did. [View all]MadHound
(34,179 posts)Thousands of innocents disagree with you.
Is it worth killing thousands to get one single man?
And really now, how many terrorists were hiding in that wedding party we blew away? Or that group of school kids? Or that other wedding party(for some reason I don't think that Obama likes wedding parties, he keeps blowing them away). On and on, entire groups of people wiped off the face of the Earth, and guess what, not a single terrorist among them. That isn't collateral damage, that is murder.
I would suggest that you go back and check your definition of war. It is generally accepted that if you invade a foreign country, violate their sovereignty with men, machine, or both, and kill people, you are at a state of war with that country. We have repeatedly violated the sovereignty of Yemen, Pakistan, and elsewhere, killing people. Tell me that isn't war.
This is simply the new face of war, a new face designed to make war more palatable to Americans. The fiction that drones are somehow neater, cleaner, more surgical is the same sort of cosmetic coverup that Bush the elder used about so called smart bombs. That bullshit wasn't true then, and it isn't true now.