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In reply to the discussion: Apparently this is the breaking point, [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)because, you know, if a US president ever orders a drone strike on American soil based on "credible threats of terrorism"? At that point, all of the pissing and moaning about constitutionality is going to be pretty much an irrelevancy because at that point, you'll be living in a functional dictatorship, regardless of what semblances and trappings of the democratic process remain. The use of drones to target people on American soil would be like what Assad has been doing in Syria. And the idea that it would happen anyway is frankly absurd because...what's the point of using drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan, again? The targets are in geographically distant and largely inaccessible locations in mountainous terrain; the logistics of conducting a military operation in such terrain make it very dicey; the possibility of hostile opposition and casualties make it more so. In Afghanistan and Pakistan we're talking about a military operation. Inside the US? It's a police operation (even if it involves federal police like the FBI).