Is Obama guilty of war crimes?

[Manowar]

What is your solution? If you keep killing good guys you will make more bad guys. Not an easy problem to solve.

manowar

[Blake the Heretic]

The solution is pretty simple.

1.) We stop killing their civilians who have nothing to do with this imaginary war on a concept.

2.) We actually take diplomacy seriously in the Middle east instead of blowing stuff up and calling ourselves diplomats for it.

3.) You're more likely to get shot by a crazy person in the U.S. than to be blown up by a terrorist.

[A Theist]

What is your solution? If you keep killing good guys you will make more bad guys. Not an easy problem to solve.

manowar

There is no other option at the moment. We continue targeting and killing the bad guys the best we can until a more efficient way of doing it is developed. But ignoring the terrorist threat and pretending it doesn't exist is no solution at all.

[Blake the Heretic]

There is no other option at the moment. We continue targeting and killing the bad guys the best we can until a more efficient way of doing it is developed. But ignoring the terrorist threat and pretending it doesn't exist is no solution at all.

You should really read that FBI report I posted earlier. You know, the one where it clearly demonstrated that terrorism is only really a problem in the two countries we invaded. Everywhere else it's a very very rare occurrence.

[Godscreated]

There is no other option at the moment. We continue targeting and killing the bad guys the best we can until a more efficient way of doing it is developed. But ignoring the terrorist threat and pretending it doesn't exist is no solution at all.

You should really read that FBI report I posted earlier. You know, the one where it clearly demonstrated that terrorism is only really a problem in the two countries we invaded. Everywhere else it's a very very rare occurrence.

How rare will it be if it happens to someone you love?

GC

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I'll ask you also, how then do we deal with the killing mind of terrorist. Again the key here is terrorist.

You know what one of the components of the killing mind of a terrorist is? Thinking innocent lives are acceptable to take in furtherance of a greater goal. Sound familliar?

We shouldn't deal with terrorists by becoming ones ourselves.

Terrorist attack the innocent for a reason, that reason is terror, they care nothing for human life, this is the reality of the situation, they have a desire to kill you even though they do not know you.

GC

[Tonus]

Frankly this was about the USA (and the UK) wanting to be the world's policeman instead of just looking after its own interests.

I really would love for the US to announce that it was starting a plan to recall all troops from abroad, cut military spending drastically, and have a force primarily for defense of the homeland and a striking force that could be deployed if needed. The amount we'd save would probably be in the low hundreds-of-billions a year, and just think about the look on the faces of all of those governments who complained about US interventionism and imperialism and HOLY SHIT YOU MEAN WE HAVE TO PROVIDE OUR OWN DEFENSE NOW?!?!?!?

I don't think you can be the world's cop. I think you can only be the world's bully. Let everyone else hash out their differences. We'll be right here, nice and cozy, and ready to spend ridiculous amounts of dollars on your goods, if you can stop killing each other long enough to make them.

[Manowar]

What is your solution? If you keep killing good guys you will make more bad guys. Not an easy problem to solve.

manowar

There is no other option at the moment. We continue targeting and killing the bad guys the best we can until a more efficient way of doing it is developed. But ignoring the terrorist threat and pretending it doesn't exist is no solution at all.

I never said ignore terrorist threat. We have not been ignoring for years and what has happened, terrorists keep coming out of the woodwork no matter how many we kill. One reason is killing good guys makes the survivors bad guys and we never run out.

manowar

[Blake the Heretic]

How rare will it be if it happens to someone you love?

That's just a redressed version of Pascal's wager fitted to apply to terrorism instead of Jesus.

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Terrorist attack the innocent for a reason, that reason is terror, they care nothing for human life, this is the reality of the situation, they have a desire to kill you even though they do not know you.

Yes, so we should be terrified and make hasty fear based political decisions to prove we aren't terrified of terrorists...makes sense, right?

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I never said ignore terrorist threat. We have not been ignoring for years and what has happened, terrorists keep coming out of the woodwork no matter how many we kill. One reason is killing good guys makes the survivors bad guys and we never run out.

manowar

I've got a crazy idea. We could reduce our military budget, get out of all our wars and borderline wars, focus on diplomacy, and then focus what our military spending on defense instead of trying to enforce our way of life on cultures and people who don't want it. Democracy can't be forced on people, they have to find it themselves. We should be an encouraging voice for a more just society not a tool of force and destruction with the audacity to address itself as civil and well intentioned.

[Whateverist]

You should really read that FBI report I posted earlier. You know, the one where it clearly demonstrated that terrorism is only really a problem in the two countries we invaded. Everywhere else it's a very very rare occurrence.

How rare will it be if it happens to someone you love?

GC

That's probably exactly what the relatives of collateral victims from drone attacks tell each other. You Christians really suck at empathy. As I remember that was the long suit for your hero Jesus.

[Polaris]

Or .. here's an idea. Capture and jail the real war criminals and drive their supporters out instead.

Then jail Obama.

Pretty much every US president ever has technically committed war crimes. I'm not going to give Obama special treatment.

/thread.

I mean, GTFO. He's our Obama. If we had a real complaint, we should be doing something about it. I think we (Americans) should do something about it, but most Americans kinda suck...

But they're our Americans...

The answer to the question is yes.

We're kinda all guilty of war crimes, by allowing war to happen.

What do you want us to do? Start a new civil war that could kill millions?