The indiscriminate killing, across sovereign borders is inexcusable. Get one targeted bad guy and who cares about “collateral damage”?
There is no way this is legal. It is about time someone called him to task.
Nobel Peace Prize winner indeed! (spit)
Yes, we know he does not believe in borders, sovereign or otherwise. He also believes that anyone is an enemy deserving of a death sentence without trial if he says so.
“The indiscriminate killing, across sovereign borders is inexcusable.”
What you said. +1
to SA: Bullcrap. This is not “indiscrimate killing”. There are no sovereign borders between Pakistan and Afghanistan. You can’t find a borderline defined on the ground. The Taliban knows this and so do the Paks. They are killing American troops. Drones even the playing field.
Your arguments are more smoke and mirrors.
Drones are no different that the Maverick TV guided missiles/bombs of Vietnam. That technology increased their accuracy, thus cutting down collateral damage that bombers and fighter-bombers did.
If you knew anything about assymetrical warfare, you would shut up. Otherwise, you are indirectly enabling the enemy to kill our soldiers. Not on my watch. My son was a soldier in OIF. My job was to protect him from the fools in the homefront, like you.
Been doing this since Nam and have no intention of stopping the great “lower information” fools from damaging our war efforts.
I don’t know if the drones do any worse than manned aircraft would. Still this stinks, this non-war war that’s dragging on to infinity. If you are going to wage a war then CONQUER darn it. Not a bunch of sloppy police actions. They must think Barack Obama is a monster over there.
shalom aleichem: “The indiscriminate killing, across sovereign borders is inexcusable.”
I agree. It violates the Law of Armed Conflict’s principle of distinction by causing the unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians. You could probably argue it also violates the other two LOAC principles, military necessity and proportionality, to some degree. That makes President Obama a war criminal.
Winners make the rules and write the history books. However, an immoral act is an immoral act no matter who does it or how it’s portrayed.
This is one area where I actually agree with Zero, although I note the hypocrisy on his part (and the American Left), who complained vociferously about Bush's war policies but have nothing to say about Zero.