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2016 Postmortem

karynnj

(59,503 posts)

17. get real - compare the numbers and you will see it is not close

Reply to Beacool (Reply #11)

Tue Feb 12, 2013, 01:19 PM

Feb 2013

The better analogue for drones is using planes to bomb targets -- you know, like Clinton did as a limited reaction to Iraq in 1998.

those that are completely pacifists have the right to attack the drones, but if you support bombings by planes with pilots or using special forces, it is pretty hypocritical. Hillary is clearly more a hawk than Obama.

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Did President Obama Single Handedly Prevented A Third American Conflict In The Middle East? [View all] FleetwoodMac Feb 2013 OP

Hillitary 2016! rah rah rah. Whisp Feb 2013 #1

Well go on now, tell us what you really think. Don't go beating around the bushes... FleetwoodMac Feb 2013 #6

interesting points. Not only saving American military lives, the war profiteers would have sucked Sunlei Feb 2013 #2

Fair point (NT) FleetwoodMac Feb 2013 #7

On The Chris Matthews Show this weekend, David Ignatius said that in the Fall, the CIA Red Teamed Pirate Smile Feb 2013 #3

That's actually a very sharp analysis by Ignatius. FleetwoodMac Feb 2013 #8

Yes, he did. AtomicKitten Feb 2013 #4

Indeed he did. FleetwoodMac Feb 2013 #10

That's OK, he'll just send them some drones. Beacool Feb 2013 #5

Okay mate, you lost me there. Perhaps an edit is in order? NT FleetwoodMac Feb 2013 #9

I was being sarcastic. Beacool Feb 2013 #11

excuse me? Whisp Feb 2013 #12

You seem to need to calm down. Beacool Feb 2013 #13

Fine with me. Whisp Feb 2013 #14

'06? Beacool Feb 2013 #15

and the reason Cheney said that Whisp Feb 2013 #16

get real - compare the numbers and you will see it is not close karynnj Feb 2013 #17

The discussion was about arming the rebels in Syria. Beacool Feb 2013 #18

separate because drones have killed less people than planes and pilots. Whisp Feb 2013 #19

Yes, and there Obama was prudent in NOT doing it karynnj Feb 2013 #21

Maybe they got tired of hearing stories like these and wanted to do something about it. Beacool Feb 2013 #22

Here, this is what I mean. Beacool Feb 2013 #20

when was the last successful intervention of this sort Whisp Feb 2013 #23