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Originally posted by HunkaHunka
That's such a paranoid schizophrenic perspective....
Originally posted by wcitizen
Originally posted by tristar
Originally posted by wcitizen
Originally posted by Gogs247
Drones are the way ahead. They are cheaper than using manned planes and on par as far as accuracy goes. Makes sense to me.
My god, this is horrendous. I just cannot imagine what those people must be experiencing and feeling. Can anyone blame them for hating US?
When is this insane barbarity going to stop.
Not to sound too morbid, but they honestly feel nothing, by the time they have an indication that they are targeted well at best the know a split second before it hits.
Dying quickly is better than dying slowly, but that doesn't make it alright. These tricksters change the name from mass murder to war and that makes it palatable to the world. It's mass murder. How would the world react if these monsters told the truth and announced thy were going to send the troops to commit Mass Murder in Afghanistan...it sounds very different from saying we're going to war with Afghanistan. It's simply the play on words which makes it 'acceptable'. It is not acceptable, it's barbaric.
Carpet bombing is the large scale bombing of large targets e.g cities,[1] usually by dropping many unguided bombs. The tactic aims for complete destruction of a target region, either to destroy personnel and materiel, or as a means of demoralizing the enemy (see terror bombing). The phrase invokes the image of bombs completely covering an area, in the same way that a carpet covers a floor.
Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
reply to post by tristar
You're justifying bombing people. It doesn't matter if it is "drone surgical strikes" or "carpet bombing", it is all bombing which kills people. Pathetic.
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
Originally posted by wcitizen
Originally posted by Gogs247
Drones are the way ahead. They are cheaper than using manned planes and on par as far as accuracy goes. Makes sense to me.
My god, this is horrendous. I just cannot imagine what those people must be experiencing and feeling. Can anyone blame them for hating US?
When is this insane barbarity going to stop.
When they give up Bin Laden....
Until then... we will send drones
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
Originally posted by wcitizen
Originally posted by Gogs247
Drones are the way ahead. They are cheaper than using manned planes and on par as far as accuracy goes. Makes sense to me.
My god, this is horrendous. I just cannot imagine what those people must be experiencing and feeling. Can anyone blame them for hating US?
When is this insane barbarity going to stop.
When they give up Bin Laden....
Until then... we will send drones
Originally posted by GirlGenius
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
That's such a paranoid schizophrenic perspective....
Only if you're Godless ...
As an example: I teach psychology at the graduate level. One of my students was commenting to another student about a client she had that she thought was delusional and may need hospitalization. When I asked her why, she reported that the client believed that she was living in hell and was quite convinced of it. I explained to the student that belief alone, in the absence of other indicators (such as decline in functionality) was not necessarily an indication of mental disorder. I shared with the student that a week earlier, my husband and I had engaged in a discussion on whether or not it was possible that we were really dead and this world that we believed we lived in was, in fact, "hell". After discussing a number of issues, such as what can be found in the OP (i.e., man's inhumanity to man), the general state of world affairs, mixed in with a bit of classical philosophy, spirituality and quantum physics, we estimated the probability at approximately 10%. An atheist, unable to accept this possibility because of his restricted world view, may well have simply diagnosed this woman as a paranoid schizophrenic and, at minimum, medicated her in the hopes of having her thinking better conform to a materialistic mindset. Unfortunately, much of psychiatry is functioning like that today.
edit on 19-12-2010 by GirlGenius because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by RedGolem
reply to post by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
Just so we can all be perfectly clear on this subject.
Are you saying that killing is wrong?
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Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
The very fact that the Americans are cowards who use UAVs to attack tribal areas is one that karma will not take lightly. Why do Americans need to train suicide bombers to bomb enemies and civilians when they can afford drones to do the same thing? It is the same thing, yet the suicide bombers that the Americans are supposedly attacking with drones have much more balls than most people on the face of this planet.
Would you blow yourself up for your cause, or would you operate a joystick and press some buttons?
Originally posted by tristar
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Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
The very fact that the Americans are cowards who use UAVs to attack tribal areas is one that karma will not take lightly. Why do Americans need to train suicide bombers to bomb enemies and civilians when they can afford drones to do the same thing? It is the same thing, yet the suicide bombers that the Americans are supposedly attacking with drones have much more balls than most people on the face of this planet.
Would you blow yourself up for your cause, or would you operate a joystick and press some buttons?
Hello again,
Perhaps you fail to see the difference here,
Suicide bombers do NOT distinguish a civilian or military target.
Drones ( UAV'S) are used as a military tool for a military purpose and not to target any civilian.
As far as balls as you so call it, well i would more or less point out the use of terrorism is anything but having balls. But i guess that is the only option left to any group of fanatics who simply do not have the ability to go head to head with any military force.
they should make a website so we can all have a shot of the drones. I'd let the experts pick out the targets then 1 mouse click from me and its bye bye jihadists
Originally posted by yeti101
my favourite drone strike was when they got a group of taliban then about an hour later when the rest had gathered to bury them at the funeral the drone struck again at the funeral party.edit on 20-12-2010 by yeti101 because: (no reason given)
You want everyone to drop their weapons and go hand to hand combat? how about like midevil times horses & archers acceptable?
you dont seem to understand the concept of war. Its about killing the enemy without being killed yourself. Words like "cowardly" mean nothing in resepct to how you win a war or kill the enemy.
Unfortunately for terry taliban we have things like drones, bombers, cruise missiles, satelites, night vvision goggles. etc etc if terry had those he would use them. He doesnt unlucky for him.