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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPakistan condemns US drone strikes
Three drone strikes in as many days on suspected militants have killed 27 people, Pakistani intelligence officials say.
The foreign ministry called the attacks illegal and said they violated the South Asian countrys sovereignty.
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The Pakistan government says the CIA drone campaign fuels anti-American sentiment in the country, and is counterproductive because of the collateral damage civilian deaths it causes.
Read more: http://www.antiguaobserver.com/?p=76300
I couldn't agree more with the statement mentioning that the drone terrorism campaign will only incite more hatred towards the US due to countless civilian deaths and possibly motivate more people to engage in terrorism out of a desire to seek retaliation for the deaths and destruction that they've witnessed.
Response to The Northerner (Original post)
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limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)Aren't you uncomfortable about how incessant focus on the OP's issue fits so well with Republican propaganda?
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)I just saw that american crossroads thing and thought hey, what gives?
Whatever no big deal.
I don't know what to think of the OP issue anymore.
I used to have an opinion on it but I don't know anymore.
sudopod
(5,019 posts)Halt right there, citizen.
THIS IS THE INTERNET POLICE!
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)Round them all up and turn them in. There problem solved.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)towards the U.S.?
Puregonzo1188
(1,948 posts)a 100 acts of terrorism, but was pardoned by the first Bush.
What should the Cubans and Venezuelans governments have done? If they had launched drone strikes in downtown Miami would you have defended it?
dballance
(5,756 posts)As arbiter of all that is right. And it decided we could invade other sovereign nation's airspace at will?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Since we were first formed as a country, wars of aggression have followed.
First we took on the French and Spanish claims to the "Mississippi Terrortories"
and for a long time invaded every American Native tribe,
then we took on Mexico when we annexed Texas, and later Cal.
and later expanded our interest into So America via the Monroe Doctrine ( which essentially told European countries hands off the Americas, that USA and Britain had dibs).
you get the gist...
hat tip to the late Mr. Zinn.
trof
(54,256 posts)Will our epitaph be the same?
Not conquered by a hostile nation, but buried under the debt incurred by never ending wars.
One wonders.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)So we seem to be right on track.
'course, now, we have added hubris in the form of Fukishima.
Because apparently Chernobyl taught us nothing.
sad sally
(2,627 posts)his predators and reapers holsters.
Strange, isn't it, that just 10 years ago the US criticised Israel for these types extra-judicial killings that were against established international rules, but now the administration finds armed drone strikes as a perverted delightful way to deliver death and destruction.
The legal definition of a targeted killing is the intentional, premeditated, and deliberate use of lethal force, by a state or its agents acting under color of law, or by an organized armed group in armed conflict, against a specific individual who is not in the perpetrators custody. By expanding the right to target and kill individuals anywhere in the world, the US has completely undermined the rules it helped create that were designed to prevent other states from carrying out extra-judicial killings. If the US can change these rules to suit its desires, why won't Iran, Syria, China, Russia or any country be able to do the same, and the US become the "beneficiary" of such extra-judicial killings of Americans by armed drones?