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PeonForHer -> RE: Civil rights groups sue U.S. for killing of Americans tied to al Qaeda (1/2/2013 4:28:51 PM)
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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver
The problem with such extra-judicial assassinations is that they tend to kill innocent people and cause resentment and recruit many more people to the opposing cause than they kill. The USA is becoming hated in pakistan for its (often) mass murder of innocent Pakistanis through drone attacks. Israel has the same policy of extra-judicial assassinations in Gaza which often wipe out whole families. It all makes conflicts harder to solve and creates resentments that can last for generations.
Yep. To my mind the proper,*self-interested* calculation should be one of 'net profit': how many terrorists will be created in the future as against those who are eliminated now? Still, on the other hand, the payback will probably not happen for many years - it takes an enraged generation of adolescents that long to come of age and get themselves indoctrinated, trained and armed, after all. Thus, this will happen safely after the present US administration is out of office. No worries. [:)]
There's something peculiarly hideous about drone warfare on the populations of the countries in which this occurs. It's 'collateral damage' is nasty in ways other than any kind of warfare that preceded it (save, maybe, the Germans' blitz on London by V1s and V2s in WW2). But a subject for another thread, perhaps.
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