Thursday, December 10, 2015

Marjorie Cohn on Drones and American Exceptionalism

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  1. I thought the woman summed up Obama quite well: Illegal, Immoral & Ineffective. Thanks for that, Mike.

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  2. I cant say I disagree with her in regards to targeting civilians like this. And everyone seems to wordlessly buy into the concept of what is often referred to as a "surgical strike" when in this case the surgery is conducted with about twenty pounds of high explosive.
    Absolutely nothing surgical about it in a residential area. I wonder if there is any linkage between this administration's use of these weapons against targets in Afghanistan and the fact that the parents of Farook Sayed and his wife are both from Pakistan.

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    1. This program is producing connections like that all the time. What better way to create suicide bombers than our drone program, I wonder.

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    2. Uh... what better way to create right-wing insurrectionists than by enacting "proper gun control"?

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    3. That's quite a stretch to land on your favorite lament.

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    4. Uh... what better way to create right-wing insurrectionists than by enacting "proper gun control"?

      Superbly stated, TS.

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    5. Mike, the policy of hunting terrorists by blowing up their neighborhoods will be a legacy of the current administration.

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    6. By all means, send in the troops and let them get killed.

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    7. "send in the troops and let them get killed."

      Or how about this for a novel concept, how about not firing missiles into residential areas in foreign countries.
      Its sort of telling how you accuse people who use firearms of taking the law into their own hands, but you seem to have no problem with this sort of behavior.
      Or is it only a bad thing if Bush does it?

      http://www.salon.com/2013/01/09/5_ways_obama_has_doubled_down_on_george_w_bushs_policies/

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  3. Then send in boots on the ground.

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