It's way past time to end the "War on Terror".

[BelgianMadCow]

13. I don't know about the rah rah war types

yes, they're here. But not like in a majority, by far, I'd guess.

But the exceptionalism, yep that is alive and well. It bothers me greatly to be honest, as a foreigner. The way in which for example torture or spying or droning policies are deemed OK as long as it's "not on Americans". The very idea that it's OK to go kill some civilians in a country you're not at war with because you have a beef with some people running around there...

How about another country kills some civilians in a drone strike that was targeting the teahadists, who clearly are terrorists by the very definition of the word? Hypothetical of course, I'd be against that. I once started a thread like that. Won't do that again very soon :-/