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TwilightGardener

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4. You bring up some good points. I don't know what the answer is, beyond

Reply to Humanist_Activist (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2013, 10:32 AM

Feb 2013

improving our intelligence gathering and vigilance in heading off attacks--and if we use drones, they'd better hit their target and only their target, and it better be someone who is plotting (or has tried) to kill us. If we routinely hit innocents and terminally scare the shit out of a population, then we obviously can't have the moral high ground on terror.

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We lost the "war" on terror, the fact that we use drones for assassination... [View all] Humanist_Activist Feb 2013 OP

Was the 'war on terror' ever meant polly7 Feb 2013 #1

When Bush the lesser set up this initial war, it was a forever war... Humanist_Activist Feb 2013 #3

I agree on that. nt. polly7 Feb 2013 #5

Having vague wars is good for the 1% You need a war to drive the MIC. Katashi_itto Feb 2013 #2

You bring up some good points. I don't know what the answer is, beyond TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #4

The first step would be acknowledging that it isn't a war at all, but criminal activity... Humanist_Activist Feb 2013 #12

^ green for victory Feb 2013 #6

The war on terror is just a way to funnel money from the middle class to the elite libtodeath Feb 2013 #7

The war for "Hearts and Minds" was lost well before drones. quaker bill Feb 2013 #8

No, I definitely see a difference, remember, in none of these countries are we at war... Humanist_Activist Feb 2013 #15

From what I have read quaker bill Feb 2013 #16

No doubt madokie Feb 2013 #9

We lost the "War On Terror" with the passage of the "Patriot(sic) Act," GoneOffShore Feb 2013 #10

DURec leftstreet Feb 2013 #11

Agreed. MuseRider Feb 2013 #13

For politicians and the Pentagon, it's not that we obviously lost, but admitting that we lost. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2013 #14