Unclebaldrick
Well-Known Member
Frankly, getting carpet bombed might be preferable to regular drone strikes. At least you know when to hide once it starts. Having to have my kids out playing when silent death could drop on them at any time might piss me off even more. For me, it is a big problem is that TRUMP! is willing to commit a war of extinction when it would do nothing but make the problem worse - but it would support his polling numbers. Then, when if does get worse, he will need to ask for extraordinary powers back home to keep us all safe.Ok, then let's talk about Obama bombs.
Obama is bombing and I absolutely hate those fucking drones. As a US citizen, I'm partially responsible for the civilian deaths caused by presidential orders. I voted for Obama in 2008 and again in 2012 knowing that Obama was going to continue to kill civilians in his ordered drone strikes. I guess I can move to Canada to clear my conscience but I'm not ready to become a hockey fan just yet.
My question to you was rhetorical in that back in 2012, there were a lot of other issues, not just the drone-inflicted civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Did I think Romney was some sort of pacifist who would shut off those strikes? Hell no, so the issue was a wash for me. The depredations by Republicans between 2000 and 2008, one action of which is the root cause of those drone strikes led me to choose a man who has been doing a lot of other really good things for this country. Also, the harm to it that a committed "trickle down" establishment Republican was promising to do to the people and economy of the US was a factor.
Today, Trump is talking about bringing back and exceeding the torture that Bush advocated. He's talking about carpet bombing areas of northern Iraq as though it is populated by raving hordes of anti american extremist semi-humans and targeting families of ISIS fighters. So, again, the choice of Hillary is not one that I prefer but I'll push the lever for her over that raving lunatic.
You cannot bomb an idea out of existence.