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In reply to the discussion: Apparently this is the breaking point, [View all]Mustellus
(328 posts)...this morning... really concerned... CONCERNED!!!! over the drone assassination program, I am more convinced than ever that this is pushed just as much by the HateObama groups ... as by the more.. shall we say ... "clutch your pearls and faint" branches of liberalism.
And yes, I'm a liberal. Haven't voted Repug since once for .. (shame) Nixon.
And yes. Kurt Vonnegut was at Dresden in the firestorm. Just one of the American POW's.. one of the ones who survived.
Were there no Americans in Hiroshima? None at all?
Were any of the Americans who died in the Civil War... all of them.. given their Right of Grand Jury? Were Confederates ever tried for Treason, and convicted? The penalty for rebellion against the USA is death, by the way.
Seemingly you accept wholesale slaughter in Nation - to - Nation warfare... but not the fact that hostage situations, single people conspiring to murder Americans, calls for a more One - On - One approach to warfare. While I'm uneasy with all warfare, its better than carpet bombing cities.
And yes. the FBI agents in Alabama at the hostage assault undoubtedly wanted to go home that night. I suspect they wanted to rescue the little kid. Getting Mr. Machinegun his Grand Jury rights was probably way third. So I suspect it was BamBamBam Surrender! After they were convinced that trying to talk him into accepting his Grand Jury rights was not going to work.
If you don't think the Right Wing isn't pushing this, you are naive.
And if Democratic Underground doesn't permit honest discussion, maybe it isn't Democratic.