First of all, I simply do not want my government/military being the private international police

force whose primary purpose is protecting or securing profit making holdings of imperialistic wealthy global private interests. Yes, maybe some are conflating these "issues" but these issues in themselves that you are discussing arise from a collective cultural consciousness that harbors the unmitigated arrogant assumption that we have some kind of divine right as Americans to kill anyone we want, anytime we want, anywhere we want.

These. Are. Not. Our. Countries. If wealthy global private interests had not been invading and exploiting these countries, they would not be interested, in the slightest, in blowing up buildings in NYC. Herb smoking camel herders in the Hindu Kush would have no problem with the US if we, and everyone else, would simply just leave them the fuck alone. Yeah, the Taliban sucks. Just like the oppressive government of most every Arab country sucks. Saudi Arabia is heinous. But we're not killing anyone in Saudi Arabia with drones or battalions of marines. Because, even though they are unspeakably corrupt and mercilessly cruel and oppressive, the royal government of Saudi Arabia is an integral part of the good ol' boys global corporate imperialist club.

We have a lot of problems that need to be solved here in this country, and spending more than half of the money we pay in taxes giving free security services and profit securing personnel/weaponry to wealthy private interests all over the planet is Nationalized Corporatism.

The ways of greed, injustice, violence, death, and destruction cannot end the ways of greed, injustice, violence, death and destruction. They only bring more horror upon innocent human beings.

It's all about money, and if you believe drones are used in Pakistan simply to protect your sweet lil ol' granny in Peoria, well...hey, wanna buy some ocean bottom land 100 miles due west of San Francisco?

Tribal folk in the Hindu Kush don't want Amalgamated Global EarthRapers, Incorporated, plundering their land, ripping up their ground, and polluting their rivers. The people of Afghanistan have been fending off invading imperialists for centuries. Not too long ago it was the Soviet Union. Now it's us.

Honestly, the total selfish, thoughtless, elitist arrogance of money worshiping cultures is frightening. They'll heartlessly kill anyone and anything that gets in the way of their comfort and profit making.

In this century, it's all, and only, about global corporate profits.

It's time to change it, and make it about people.

Seriously? What you are essentially saying is that Obama has every right to execute anyone he

chooses whenever he chooses without due process, because you have complete faith in him to have the knowledge and wisdom to always execute the people who need to be executed.

And you're also apparently saying that rightwingers believe that this is a good thing, so they are not complaining about it; and we should not complain about it either because we don't want to stir up the hornet's nest and expose the President to criticism.

We've seen things like this before in this land, and others. A lot of really good people sacrificed, suffered, and died to stop these types of things from happening throughout human history. It must not be tolerated now, or ever, no matter how much you may love your president and believe he can do no wrong. When you are wrong, you are wrong. Justifying and allowing tyranny can only lead to more tyranny.

"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."
~~Benjamin Franklin, 1785

Are you kidding me? He should pick himself up by his bootstraps instead of

pointing out the rapidly accelerating inequities of the system?

This is post Reagan/Bush America. Bankster America. Elvis has left the building.

We live in a consolidated capitalist/globalist plutarchy in which wealth has been polarized in the extreme. Union/labor power is essentially non-existent. The Military Industrial Complex controls the government. Wages have essentially gone down while the cost of everything has skyrocketed.

You'd have to have just fallen off a turnip truck to believe that this was just a random occurrence. Money makes money, and people with money often do very nasty shit to others in order to make more and more profit.

The chances of starting and maintaining a successful business are very slim unless there is substantial capital to float the business for a long time, or unless the business is based on some marvelous new invention or idea or something like that. Most of my friends who own/owned small businesses can no longer compete with Walmartization and have gotten out or are getting out.

Wealthy private interests are totally in control now, and we need a revolution, not another failed small business that can only afford to pay its workers a less than living wage with no benefits.

The problem is clearly systemic, and we need to fix or change the system before this country goes completely third world Les Miserables.

A hero these days would be someone who engages in non-violent democratic revolution, not in some rigged capitalist matrix fantasy in which austerity and disaster capitalism snowballs all economic wealth and power into the hands of a very few.

It's time to level the playing field.

Telling someone, in the style of Scott Walker, to pick themselves up by their bootstraps and get rich so they can become a philanthropic capitalist in post Reagan/Bush/Bankster Feudal America is like saying

"Let them eat cake".