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In reply to the discussion: If only she had been armed and trained... [View all]jody
(26,624 posts)Gun Control & RKBA (Group)
Please don't misconstrue anything I said.
In no way am I a hero, but I know and have known many who are and we're all brothers in arms having once obeyed orders from our Commander in Chief, freely elected by We the People.
How can the drone pilot, possibly operating from Nellis AFB NV, live with himself after discovering he followed orders to kill a target he later was told was a "two legged dog", apparently military jargon for Sandy Hook age children in other countries.
Drone targets declared by our Commander in Chief to be deadly terrorists if they appear on video screens to be older than 18 or 15 or 12 or whatever.
With foreign policies like that, how can any other nation respect us?
How can we continue to respect ourselves?
When the atomic bomb detonated, Oppenheimer quoted a phrase from Hindu scripture in the Bhagavadgita that I paraphrase, "We have become death"