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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:55 AM Feb 2013

(I should know better than to start this.) Could POTUS order an infantry assault on my bunker [View all]

if I were a U.S. Citizen holed up in an Al Qaeda compound in Waziristan?

Could he order an artillery barrage?

A piloted air strike?

If you answered "yes" to any of those, why not a drone strike?

If you answered "no" to all those, then do we agree the drones are not the problem?

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(I should know better than to start this.) Could POTUS order an infantry assault on my bunker [View all] Recursion Feb 2013 OP

Agreed. The Imperial Presidency is the problem MannyGoldstein Feb 2013 #1

'Holed up in a bunker' versus 'Attending a meeting of terrorists'. randome Feb 2013 #2

That's a fair point Recursion Feb 2013 #3

That would, of course, be preferable. randome Feb 2013 #6

I agree; that's the one time we know where they are Recursion Feb 2013 #7

An artillery barrage on a WTO meeting would be far more effective. Zorra Feb 2013 #4

That and the Pentagon and all of Langley. Arctic Dave Feb 2013 #8

U.S. Citizen holed up in an Al Qaeda compound in Waziristan, you that stupid you get what lonestarnot Feb 2013 #5