Posted on 04/06/2018 9:14:42 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
President Trump reportedly asked the CIA why it waited until a terror target’s family left the building before launching a drone missile strike against him.
“Why did you wait?” the president asked, according to the Washington Post, after being shown a video of an earlier strike in Syria by the ISIS-fighting spooks.
The CIA’s head of drone operations told the commander-in-chief that the agency’s goal was to minimize civilian casualties, an explanation that left Trump “unimpressed,” the paper reported.
On the campaign trail, then-candidate Trump once said that the US should kill not just terrorists, but their wives, children and other relatives as well.
“When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don’t kid yourself. But they say they don’t care about their lives. You have to take out their families,” Trump said in 2015.
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According to the Compost makes this beyond fake news.
This is BS posing as fake news, is just another example of where our 4th Estate is.
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The truth is that by waiting they could have missed their primary target.
Trump followed up and killed his daughter[us citizen] in Yemen.
Trump isn't God.
As far as the Bible goes, deliberately killing a child when it can be avoided violates the sixth commandment.
Nits...Lice.....
“According to the Washington Post......”
In other words according to well known certified liars.
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You’re confused.
The first commandment over-rides misinterpretation of the others.
Obeying Yehova’s demand that a nation be completely annihilated, including their livestock does not violate any commandment.
America has not fought a war since WWII. The era of the American “Police Action”,abuse of War Powers and all of the other Presidential misadventures and abuse of our military is a disgrace.
So, you think God appeared to Trump and told him to change our rules of engagement to actively target children?
When the Patriot Act was passed, I thought it did little to confront the problem, but was great as trading some more liberty for a sense of security. Terrorism is an idea, not a military force. To destroy ideas, you have to attack them in the brains of wanna be terrorists.
Russia’s KGB came closest to what is needed to defeat terrorism. You must make the consequences of acts of terror so swift, devastating, and yes, terrifying that the notion of committing a terrorist act dies in the mind before it can even be expressed. You wanna be a suicide bomber? Does that include what will happen afterwards?
The KGB would wipe out the perpetrator’s family, his neighbors, and his whole damned village. Civilian casualties were part of the methodology. Ruthless, pitiless, eyes-wide-open disaster. That’s how you defeat an idea.
But a nation who recoils from and defines water boarding as torture, may be too compassionate to survive.
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I’m not disposed to endless intervention in your blindness.
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>> “But a nation who recoils from and defines water boarding as torture, may be too compassionate to survive.” <<
No Shiite.
It wouldn't upset me if he took down the names of the people who would have been within earshot of the (alleged) comment, shake them down and polygraph them, and then begin firing them, one-by-one. Treasonous to the core, this deepstate bunch.
Our culture has transformed radically in the past 30 years, and not for the better.
Respect for due process, and 4th Amendment rights in general, died here on 9/11. A quick search reveals that there was plenty of support for the extrajudicial murder of Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki (and also your honorable objections to it, kudos).
cut me some slack on this one - but - since I was young, I never understood the Why that God instructed Israel in different cases to wipe out everyone, Men, Women, Children, livestock. I didn’t doubt God, or His Goodness, knowing that He judges everyone for their own decision justly in His presence - even though it’s not nicey nice for us.
But, it hit me after seeing Taken 2 - don’t laugh. Yes I had seen other revenge movies/stories - but just the way the muslim father and relatives went after Liam Neilson for killing the son, I more understood that the poison attitude that could be part of someone as they continued to live and got older - would be a constant threat to Israel.
Good for President Trump. Kill all terrorists and those who support them.
Oh wait- those were the children living in the house with the Yemeni
al Qaeda terrorist cell ( men and women) killed during a night special forces raid that seized al Qaeda terrorist planning materials
The children were NOT targeted, but were caught in crossfire or deliberately used as shields
BIG DIFFERENCE
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If they are totally evil, and their presence brings others into destruction, why should he not order their destruction?
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The guilty, in all cases of criminal activity, including terrorism, should be judged by the standards they themselves employ, in the name of diversity and sensitivity to their cultural standards.
This philosophy brought us both mass abortion and indiscriminate acts of war, including reprisals against civilians. It is about as directly anti-God as you can be in this world.
That said, I am not a pacifist. Nothing I said above excludes just and well-targeted acts of force, including lethal force, to stop aggressors.
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