“I am a leader - they will follow me!” - D Trump
But the leaders of the military and CIA say that killing the families o terrorists is illegal. Here and abroad. Illegal.
“Believe me, our military will do what I tell them to do.” D Trump
Dictator anyone? Above the rule of law?
We already have that in Hillary Clinton.
And furthermore, our military supports and defends the Constitution. The rule of law is their guide. They can not and should not follow orders that are immoral, illegal, or unethical. And what Trump is suggesting is all three.
Good post.
Those are the leaders put in place by the feckless Obama.
Churchill had to allow even his own civilians be killed in order to help defeat Hitler.
Good Lord, in any real war, we’ve killed thousands of opponents’ families whose worst crime might have been having a relative who was some lowly PFC or equivalent in the lines, who probably had no choice whether to go fight or not.
Now, this does not mean we should target innocents, but if the families give terrorists any support at all, they are legit targets. Young kids, ok, that’s tough, but the terrorists should know what they are getting their families into... Cripes, most of them (the terrorists) may consider their families’ deaths a blessing from Allah.
>>>And furthermore, our military supports and defends the Constitution. The rule of law is their guide. They can not and should not follow orders that are immoral, illegal, or unethical. And what Trump is suggesting is all three<<<
Well, I guess we didn’t Fire Bomb the Civilian Populations in Dresden and Tokyo and we didn’t Nuke the Civilian Populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the Military didn’t follow the immoral, illegal or unethical orders of those two Dictators FDR and Truman.
In fact, I’ll bet we didn’t put American Citizens of Japanese Descent into Internment Camps (like Hitler did to German Citizens) either because the Military didn’t follow the immoral, illegal or unethical orders of the Dictator in the White House at the time, FDR.
So, you think that Trump will be a Dictator, probably even worse than Obama. Can’t wait to find out if you’re right.