It's Just Shocking What the Drone War Cheerleaders Are Willing to Say Out Loud

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29. And is it our job to police the world?

From where I sit, we are causing more reasons for people to join these extremist causes, where before they would be content growing poppy in a field or hoarding something on a remote mountainside.

There were probably similar thoughts on the atomic bomb before we dropped 2 on cities full of innocent people. Now, we run around the world fearful of other countries getting nuclear because we do know how destructive they are. We also seem to have our heads in the sand about the drones as well, until that is before terrorists begin to use them on us OR our policing agencies begin to use them on us. I'm quite sure the ones now belonging to the police agencies will accost a citizen on Our soil first. Already they police are using the sound weapon on peaceful protestors along with full armed seat teams, chemical weapons, rubber bullets, and intimidating with tanks rolling out beside them.

The MIC is going to continue bleeding us dry and creating more methods of technological death. It's really on our shoulders to rise up. And I'm not exactly sure how that will happen or what it will look like. The honest truth is that we would win more hearts and minds by providing access to helpful technology like running water, electricity, food, medicine, shelter, access to creating a better existence in their lives and their families lives, along with healthy doses of education. In fact, we would advance our own country with similar initiatives.

Really, with the problems we face as a global community in regards to our environmental issues and living a sustainable lifestyle for now and our future is much more important than building bombs and killing each other. It's much more practical to do away with antiquated wars and death and the spiral of "enemies" that are woven into our fabric of history that perpetuate more sworn enemies for at least as long as a Govt's and wealthy fins it pertinent to have a said enemy.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure then intended target on the other side of a drone strike is a "bad guy"; it's just that the target from an unmanned drone with no real ground eyes and unspecified collateral damage makes for a very slippery slope. And we are flying these things into countries that we are not at war with under the umbrella of The War of Terror. When does the terrorist stop being a brown, Muslim extremist in a far away country? And why should it matter? Would we take it lying down if we had random drones flying into the country and taking out a neighborhood because their is one "enemy" living in the community? We certainly didn't take a benign approach after the Twin Towers came down. We didn't send out an expert team and utilize allies in bringing in the terrorists for prosecution like civil human beings... No we went into a country where Al Queda was hiding out in and targeted the entire country and then went off to Iraq to quagmire around in that country that had no ties to 9/11.

At some point some self examination and self awareness of what we allow our leaders to do in our name with our money should occur... And of we don't like what we see, we must have Reps who will do what is right for the people. We seem to be in the downward spiral of an empire. The democratically elected reps won't follow the law and won't enact basic will of the people over their own hubris, greed, and power lust. When most of the country statistically wants out of all war, spend money on infrastructure, a tangible way off of oil, for wealthy and corps to pay their fair share, Medicare for All, better education and access to the education, and a simple background check on weapon owners, then we only have two ways to emerge: 1, better Reps OR 2. total break up of this country.