[VRWC_minion]

Yet we are being asked to blindly trust our leaders who are career politicians. I try, yet cannot muster such blind faith

First, you have no faith in our representative form of government then. Unfortunately for you we have a republic and you have already given the president and congress the responsibility to wage war.

Second, any targeting in a war is done based on secret information. Using your criteria that we cannot trust government to choose its targets in secret that all future wars must be fought where we make each target public and vote on it in the public forum. Okie dokie.

[AUgrad]

First, you have no faith in our representative form of government then. Unfortunately for you we have a republic and you have already given the president and congress the responsibility to wage war.

True, I have very little faith in our so called "Republic".We have a federal autocracy, not a republic.

Second, any targeting in a war is done based on secret information. Using your criteria that we cannot trust government to choose its targets in secret that all future wars must be fought where we make each target public and vote on it in the public forum. Okie dokie.

There's a huge difference between choosing an individual target and choosing to bomb an entire country.

[iconoclast]

you have no faith in our representative form of government then.

Well, yeah, somethin like that.

Are you too young to remember the Gulf of Tonkin?