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.
This is a silly rope a dope “war.” The old way would be to conquer Afghanistan, or at least try to.
Do you discard the possibility that drone attacks might also have a counterproductive effect by #1 not killing enough enemies to destroy their capability to wage war and #2 creating essentially a blood feud between tribes and the US that could very well last for as long as the survivors live?
I’m all for killing the enemy, MadMax, and I even agree civilian deaths are sometimes a necessary part of that. However, I wonder if this is really necessary to achieve victory. The objectives in this endless war on terrorism seem pretty muddled to me.
No, it is you who does not know of what you speak.
No one has ever said that the indiscriminate carpet bombing and napalming of Southeast Asia was “OK”. Quite the contrary.
Your son may be a soldier but why woulkd you assume I wasn’t. You must not talk to many vets.
Our troops have no mission in Afghanistan any more. They are just ducks in a shooting gallery. There because O lacks the guts to pull them, but he will not allow them to do their job while there. He never has.
You’re entitled to your opinion, but you have no right or call to tell me to shut up.