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http://mashable.com/2013/01/22/pbs-nova-drones-doc/
Neat......
Welcome to the future, we are all TARGETS
Neat......
Welcome to the future, we are all TARGETS
Perhaps. I feel like the public needs to be sold better on it then. I think more people look at drones as remote control death devices, which are less understood, than a confrontation with an armed opponent, and making strategic decision on how to neutralize the opponent. Throw in the massive civilian casualties that are being reported as a result of drone strikes, and much like most things these days, unless you have a better PR guy than the opposing group, you're probably going to lose to public opinion. That's more important now than it has been in previous decades.But back on topic. Using drones is actually something that has been in the works for years and is the natural progression of how both parties want to conduct war. Ending wars and bringing home troops needs to be replaced by something in order to continue the ongoing campaign of imperialism and drones are the answer. Politically, it's not worth sending 150,000 service members to some foreign country if you can't shape public opinion on it. Smaller, surgical strikes is the new face of war when you have a nebulous enemy.
Agreed, I should've said Affordable Care Act/Obamacare instead. Mis-use of "Universal Health Care" by me.On a couple of sidenotes, what passed for healthcare reform isn't universal healthcare and if I remember correctly
As a pretty well known "non-Christian" around these parts, it doesn't really matter to me WHO got the money. I sincerely believe it was his goal to find a way to get money to Africa to fight the spread of AIDS (and not to pad the pockets of NGO administrators). Missionaries have a long and horrible history throughout that continent, but if they are going to teach abstinence, while educating on the spread of AIDS, delivering medication to slow the progression of the disease, or even just hand out a ton of rubbers, good for W, and shame on previous presidents for not making it a major point of action. He is not appropriately credited for that great act, because he is better known for many widely considered bad ones. That's my question on Obama. Will he be known for one thing that many consider to be very good (Affordable Care Act) or will it be the use of drones, lack of action on Gitmo, continuation of wars, and expansion in some regions? I don't know. We can discuss in a couple decades.most of the AID's funds were dispersed to religious organizations, more than likely christian ones, that promoted abstinence rather than safer sex practices and sex education.
A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders” of al-Qaida or “an associated force” -- even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S.
“The condition that an operational leader present an ‘imminent’ threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future,” the memo states.
Instead, it says, an “informed, high-level” official of the U.S. government may determine that the targeted American has been “recently” involved in “activities” posing a threat of a violent attack and “there is no evidence suggesting that he has renounced or abandoned such activities.” The memo does not define “recently” or “activities.”
About how they'd love to see Paul and Sanders together on a Presidential ticket or how we should be supporting Paul because of superficially being on the same side as liberals on some issues.And what do libertarians say about Bernie Sanders???