The disconnect by Americans re violence in Syria is sickening.

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78. dead people are all the same

except that 900 dead people (in five? years of drone attacks) are not the same as 70,000 dead people (in TWO years of the Syrian civil war as of 28 April).

Consider that in 2011, there were 497 people murdered in the United States who were under the age of 4. There were 946 under the age of 16. That's more dead American children in ONE year than in five plus years of drone attacks.

Now suppose Adam A$$hat had survived Newtown and was holed up somewhere with a band of merry men planning another attack on a school. Would it be worthwhile to take him and some of his cohorts out with a drone strike before they could complete their next attack? Or their next attack? Or their next attack? Maybe he shoots up another five schools before the police finally kill him. That would be hundreds of dead kids.

Compared to a few regrettably killed in a drone attack, how is that not a net positive?