(01-30-2017 11:29 AM)Fitbud Wrote: (01-30-2017 11:26 AM)Hambone10 Wrote: This is the fallacy of 'clean' wars that we began in the 1960s.
Dead children on the 6:00 news is the enemies biggest weapon against us. That's why they hide their bombs in schools and churches and build their bombs at home. We have military bases and our fighters wear uniforms. That's how wars USED to be waged.
So we build smart bombs and drones and have these 'surgical' strike teams, putting OUR people at greater risk so as to put fewer of THEIR people at risk. As tragic as these deaths are, they obviously would have been far worse if we had simply dropped bombs.
It's not about right and wrong to me... it is what they have made it.
This is why I don't believe in 'limited' wars. If you don't want it dead and aren't willing to accept civilian casualties, you don't call the military.
I thought they put their bombs in churches and schools so that we wouldn't destroy them. Not so they can put children on the news.
Also, how do drones put us at greater risk? They are totally unmanned.
If I had meant what you read, I would have said...
So we build smart bombs, drones and have these 'surgical' strike teams, putting OUR people at greater risk....
thus relating the three items together
Instead I said...
So we build smart bombs and drones and have these 'surgical' strike teams, putting OUR people at greater risk....
Smart bombs and drones are one 'item'... Surgical strike teams that put our people at risk are another.
I understand why you might have misread my comment... but I don't understand the need for such pedantic debate. Surgical strike teams put our people at greater risk than bombs do. I though that would be self-evident.
As to the former, again... who cares about such pedantic discussions? Did I SAY they do it so that there would be dead children on the 6pm news? No. I said that such a thing is a big weapon against us. It deters us from destroying their weapons... just as you obviously understand. The reason we won't attack them is that we don't want to kill civilians if we can help it.... and we put it on the 6:00 news when we do.
What is the point in these silly arguments?
(01-30-2017 05:50 PM)john01992 Wrote: sorry you don't like facts Fo.
Tell me. How many americans have been killed in the domestics terrorist attacks by refugees from those seven countries?
If you want facts, you might look into the FACT that every one of those countries is subject to sanctions placed on them by the US (Obama) government... and the FACT that terrorism is much more involved than simply killing people.
You might also look at the FACT that the point is to stop FUTURE terrorist acts... not past ones. In much of the rest of the world, these are the places where terrorists are coming from or through. We've all done a decent job of identifying and isolating terrorists, and we know that they are using the 'fog of war' to get away from that isolation.