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In reply to the discussion: I'm a loyal member of the Democratic Party and I don't have a problem with Drones [View all]Politicub
(12,165 posts)Let's just face facts. We're brutal to the weakest among us by shredding the social safety net. We're brutal to other nations by engaging in perpetual wars and by recklessly throwing around our power. Our early days as a republic were filled with brutality against native Americans and slaves. We're brutal against petty drug addicts by locking them away in a runaway prison industrial complex.
Unless someone has been on the battlefield they don't know the wages of war. Required military service for all Americans for one to two years may do a lot of good. I like to think we can be at peace one day, but it will never happen until war stops being an abstraction.
And with all that said, I agree with your post. I'm not going to engage in debates about this issue on DU since it turns into another absolutist battlefield not unlike gun debates. Plus I haven't heard evidence that the policy is being abused.
Yes, there is much opportunity for drone abuse. But no matter how much we want to put the genie back into the bottle, drone warfare is a reality now just as we could not unring the bell of atomic weapons. And the irony of universal service vs. drone warfare isn't lost on me.
It's not a matter of good or bad anymore. It's the reality we find ourselves in.