A hypothetical question for anyone who supports the use of drones/summary executions

[jeff47]

120. No, I fully acknowledge them.

With Sabrina's point, I said we'll receive blowback at this point even if we do nothing more in the Middle East. We've been fucking them over for decades, and that anger won't vanish quickly. Additionally, the US being the Great Satan is fantastic for the local governments, who can blame their failures on us and that isn't going to stop quickly even if we have no presence in the Middle East.

With your point, the difference is I expect a massively larger body count after the next large-scale attack. After all, how many people did we kill with our overreaction to 9/11? Another large-scale attack on the US is going to result in another massive overreaction, which will kill far more people than our drone strikes. (And I admit this point requires the drone strikes to work at disrupting terrorist groups. Currently, that matches what's being reported.)

Again, I don't like drone strikes. I don't like our other options more than I don't like drone strikes. Please provide me with a workable alternative so I can support a good option instead of a "least-bad" option.