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Galraedia

(5,025 posts) Wed Jun 17, 2015, 09:52 AM Jun 2015

Rachel Maddow - US drone killing of al Qaeda leader elevates terror mastermind

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Rachel Maddow - US drone killing of al Qaeda leader elevates terror mastermind (Original Post) Galraedia Jun 2015 OP

I hope someone somewhere is "thinking new thoughts" re. this stuff, 'cause.... Smarmie Doofus Jun 2015 #1

The guy killed was the #2 man on AQ's pecking order, which is a joke. bulloney Jun 2015 #2

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)

1. I hope someone somewhere is "thinking new thoughts" re. this stuff, 'cause....

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 10:18 AM

Jun 2015

... this ( tit-fot-tat, spy vs. spy) strategy is a "CLICHE'".

It's "nowhere. On the way to no place." ( Karen Gorney, Saturday Night Fever.)

Unless where ok w. looking at another 15 years of this stuff. With the added incalculable "collateral damage" domestically to constitutional safeguards, privacy, limited gov't, democracy, etc. etc. etc.

bulloney

(4,113 posts)

2. The guy killed was the #2 man on AQ's pecking order, which is a joke.

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 11:01 AM

Jun 2015

How many #2's from al Quaeda have we supposedly killed since Bush's invasion began?

Being appointed AQ's #2 leader is a death sentence if you're to believe our Pentagon Propaganda.

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