The drone matrix.

[MadHound]

18. You really don't understand what's going on then.

Let's see, you call in an attack on what you think is an al-Qaeda target, in a country whose sovereignty we're violating with this attack. You may or may not hit the attack. You may make a clean kill of an actual al-Qaeda operative. On the other hand, you could kill nearby innocents, women, children, whomever. Or worse yet, target the wrong person. What you wind up doing is radicalizing more people than you kill, and al-Qaeda grows even larger.

We are involved in a war of ideas, yet we insist on fighting it like a war of bullets and blood. By insisting on treating it as such a war, and fighting it like such a war, we are bound to lose. We've been down this road before, forty plus years ago in SE Asia. Don't you think we should learn our lesson instead of doing the same old shit again and again?

You want to save the lives of our soldiers, so do I. I think the best way to achieve that end is to not get involved in imperial wars abroad, to stop pissing off people and countries to the point that they will do anything to kill Americans. To stop acting like the bully on the block and to genuinely help people instead of "nation building" other countries into the model we wish to see them.