(December 19, 2013 at 6:14 pm)Godschild Wrote: America is hated because others have short memories. Those drones you are hating on have brought terrorism by some groups to its knees. War is always a trade off with the innocent paying a high price for the betterment of many others, just as any justice system, innocent people will pay a price for the betterment of the country's fight against crime. It's not perfect but then what is.
Yeah, what's a couple of innocent lives as long as you get to kill the bad guy?
It's this cavalier attitude towards collateral damage that sullies the country I live in. This is the reason I am ashamed to call myself an American.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
