(April 19, 2015 at 9:42 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Well I guess starving children to death in a foriegn country isn't a war crime if a Democrat does it. How about drone strikes on wedding parties?
Although who's starving kids to death from over here? You're granting the U.S. government too much omnipotence.
And yes, we're going to target the folks who have brought beheading back into fashion, from drones overhead where we don't have to put military personnel at risk. We intend to make life dangerous for these folks, including the time they spend at their weddings. Occasionally we will target the wrong folks. But there's something to be said about that also: These uninvolved folks allow and accept having extremists live among them, and in most areas where ISIS governs, it does so with at least tacit consent from the majority of its subjects. If the uninvolved folks don't want to be at risk from U.S. airstrikes gone awry, then they better get busy about kicking the Islamic extremists out, or at least objecting to the formation of extremist bases inside their homes and neighborhoods.
In general, kings rule because the people accept them.
I don't love war and its justifications, or think the U.S. is always right everywhere it uses its military, but we're right about al-Qaeda and ISIS, and we're doing the best we can as far as avoiding civilian deaths in connection with drone strikes and commando actions against these organizations.
