Do you think we're "deliberatly" calling in drone strikes against innocents?
I understand that sort of thing is used by AQ and its sympathizers to garner support. What I don't get is why we should hobble ourselves because of it. What we SHOULD be doing is a better job of target selection, and what we SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING was prosecuting the war far more aggressively from the start. We fire bombed Dresden into ashes in WW2 and General Curtis LeMay practically leveled Tokyo.
But today we're somehow supposed to fight a war "but we better not kill anyone."
We also won WW2 less than half the time we've been putzing around in those mideast sandpits.
Yea once in a while we bomb some Muslim wedding ..... I suppose though those Islamic Terrorists AQ & their ilk have killed very many of their own kind as well. And of course there's the Taliban & sharia law and the cr@p it gets away with.
No, I don't think that. I was just illustrating that we've done many things, of which that is only one, that have emboldened al-qaeda
Let me ask you this... if a nation started sending drones into the US to kill people they considered "terrorists," how would you feel about it?
We can't keep fighting wars on nebulous things like "terrorism."
A war is fought against a nation. If we have not declared war against pakistan, syria, or whoever, we shouldn't be sending combat aircraft into them to bomb people. Period.
Once in a while, eh? Any idea just how many noncombatants we've killed in our drone strikes? There's not near enough oversight.
The WW2 argument doesn't hold any water either. Not only have we gotten more technologically advanced, but we were fighting those NATIONS, in their entirety. Here, we continually say "we're not at war with XYZ, and then prove we're lying by sending armed aircraft into those countries to kill their people.
But this is all thread drift... So, again, I'll ask you... what has Snowden revealed that has A.) helped al qaeda, and B.) cannot be found in another source, such as the aforementioned huge amounts of tell all books, leaks (inadvertant or deliberate) by congress, etc?