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Warren Stupidity

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8. "We aren't" => no, al Qaeda is not an existential threat. It is an annoyance.

Reply to msanthrope (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:11 PM

Feb 2013

If we had reacted rationally to the sept 11 attack, it would have remained an international anti-terrorist law enforcement effort instead of an insane bankrupting never ending global war on whatever.

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Would Lincoln use drones? [View all] arely staircase Feb 2013 OP

Even if he didn't use 'em to take out people, I'm sure he would have used 'em to spy, to take out MADem Feb 2013 #1

A patent was filed in 1863.... Historic NY Feb 2013 #2

Lincoln was facing an existential threat to the nation. Warren Stupidity Feb 2013 #3

Al Qaeda is existential? nt msanthrope Feb 2013 #5

"We aren't" => no, al Qaeda is not an existential threat. It is an annoyance. Warren Stupidity Feb 2013 #8

I agree--a bunch of well-placed drones, particularly at Tora Bora, and msanthrope Feb 2013 #9

Native Americans might not have faired well with drones think Feb 2013 #4

If you are not with us, you are against us, and therefore legit drone targets The Straight Story Feb 2013 #6

And it didn't help much that the US Govt repeatedly violated treaties think Feb 2013 #11

Yes treestar Feb 2013 #7

He suspended habeas corpus during his presidency... backscatter712 Feb 2013 #10

Probably, he's responsible for 600,000 dead Americans and 1 million + amputations with saws... Ter Feb 2013 #12

You mean war with actual defined territories, battlefields, objectives, capitals, TheKentuckian Feb 2013 #13