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41. I really don't judge the times as equivalent. In VN, we drafted troops while today, every one is a

Mon Sep 3, 2012, 08:54 AM

Sep 2012

volunteer.

As controversial as strikes against US citizens are, there isn't a general condemnation to the degree VN was protested. Drone strikes are far more surgical than VN-era B-52 ARCLIGHT carpet bombing missions. Advances in targeting means that non-combatant deaths are far lower than in prior conflicts.

The primary disagreement I have is with the premeditated strikes against US citizens who are at that moment not engaged in attacks against US forces - when force protection rules of engagement would trump combatants rights of due process by an unbiased 3rd party, like a court.

So the political question is what you do with a President that approves these strikes?

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You save your energy for where you have some chance of being heard starroute Sep 2012 #9

Or this could turn into Chicago 1968, when it was a big boost for Nixon. pnwmom Sep 2012 #12

There's no equivalent to Vietnam, though. Ken Burch Sep 2012 #16

Pure fantasy MFrohike Sep 2012 #20

Nixon largely left the Great Society alone in his first term, though. Ken Burch Sep 2012 #21

Again, fantasy MFrohike Sep 2012 #29

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You're right MFrohike Sep 2012 #36

I think pride and ego came into his choices in '68, in part. Ken Burch Sep 2012 #37

Right and wrong MFrohike Sep 2012 #42

Protest, in and of itself, doesn't lead to change. Ken Burch Sep 2012 #43

Although with VN, LBJ wasn't targeting US citizens for assassination. The drone hellfire strikes 24601 Sep 2012 #25

I'm as anti-drone as you are. Just saying the situation won't have the same vibe Ken Burch Sep 2012 #31

I really don't judge the times as equivalent. In VN, we drafted troops while today, every one is a 24601 Sep 2012 #41

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