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In reply to the discussion: Bipartisan Resolution to Compel White House to Release Legal Justification for Drone Strikes [View all]zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)I don't really think you understand 1930's history very well. Hitler was surrounded by people who would have gladly stepped into his position. You could have kept killing them all, they'd just keep coming. The problem was that Germany, and much of the world, was "open" to this kind of leadership. The "solution" to this problem is not killing people, it is eliminating the conditions that create/empower them.
And the end of the day WWII was aptly named because it was reall WWI 2.0. WW II was basically a restart/continuation of WW I. Of course WW I was in many ways a fall out of the Balkan wars. WW I also set the stage for the "cold war" which of course spawned several wars such as Vietnam and the Soviets Afghanistan war, which of course spawned the Mujahadeen which spawned 9-11 which lead to the Iraq war and is still used by Obama as a justification for our Afgan war.
See a pattern here? All we are doing with drones is setting up the next war.
Peace is not the inability to create war, it is the ability to create war, and choosing not to.
If you hope for peace and plan for war, you'll get war.