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In reply to the discussion: Drones: Do I have a line in the sand? [View all]Raggaemon
(68 posts)I recall reading someplace, " while liberals get bogged down debating the nuanses of complex issues, republicans are at work creating new bumper sticker slogans". The point being that for people looking at strength on national security, we liberals always end up sounding like wimps too caught up in namby-pamby minutia, too much so for most folks.
All this bitching about the horrors of killing Americans makes me sick, someone colluding with others to plot against you and your family, willing to kill you, but oh no, we can't kill them ... who will you send to capture them, or is it a matter that you don't trus the intel ? If you don't trust the intelligence what then, sit around haggling, debating, second-guessing ?
I was against the Vietnam war, when I was drafted I studied the Conscientious Objectors handbook, I wasn't killing anyone, there were no college deferments left in 1969, my draft year, Dick Cheney and his gang got em all. I was against the first Gulf War, daddy Bush's big lie, I'm against wars period, yeah I know ... "if that's true, how can you defend drone strikes ?". I have the luxury, like you, to sit here and play arm-chair quarterback, none of us is shouldering the responsibility of protecting the entire United States IN REAL TIME, but some of us seem wrapped up in a utopian ideal.
What then is your option, more "boots on the ground", another round of covert CIA assassin squads, sit around the campfire with people who vow to kill you and talk, hoping to change their minds ? You offer nothing but complaints without options, that's what pisses me off, and that's what helps make our side seem limp and feckless on such matters.
There is no perfect solution, if the responsibility calls for protecting the citizens of this country you will have to balance between not having a margin for error and taking steps that might push the envelope, you think you'd come up with something better ?