I guess it's time to throw msnbc under the bus

[MadHound]

17. You're not thinking very clearly, nor very far ahead.

For every innocent a drone kills, a dozen or more pissed off people are created. These people are mad at the US and many of them are ready to do anything to get back at us. That includes initiating future attacks against, much in the style of 911. Thus, with these drone attacks, we are laying the foundation for our own downfall. The blowback is going to be hell on earth.

Furthermore, these drone strikes are illegal, immoral. They violate the sovereignty of various nations, thus violating international law. They are not precise, and they kill dozens of innocents with each strike.

Imagine, if you will, that there was a drone strike on the Dalai Lama here in the US? After all, according to the precedent we've set with our drone policy, China would be perfectly within its right to do so. After all, according to the Chinese, he is a terrorist. Yes, he lives in a foreign nation, one whose sovereignty they would have to violate, but it isn't as if we haven't violated the sovereignty of of Pakistan, Somalia and other countries. Sure, taking out the Dalai Lama would kill twelve or fifteen surrounding innocents, but hey, isn't that what the US does?

According to our own drone policy and practices, China would be perfectly within its rights to launch a drone strike on the US in order to take out the Dalai Lama, and the right to launch another if they've gotten bad intelligence and missed with the first one(or second, or third).

Now do you understand the problems with drones? Obama's drone policy goes against international law, kills innocents, and puts all of us in danger.