America's deadly double tap drone attacks are 'killing 49 people for every terrorist'

Who really are the terrorists in this situation?

 

I think we all know the answer to that.

The government and the terrorists.

 

It wouldn't matter to the average western if only 1 in 5,000,000 killed were suspected terrorists. It gives us the illusion of comfort. And we're so selfish that that's all we care about.

The funny thing is, if anything the drone strikes are actually endangering us. Hopefully one day we'll all be able to wake up to the reality of the phenomena of blowback that Paul warned us about before it's too late. But then again, maybe it already is.

 

[quote name='"Niveuspuer"']It wouldn't matter to the average western if only 1 in 5,000,000 killed were suspected terrorists. It gives us the illusion of comfort. And we're so selfish that that's all we care about.

The funny thing is, if anything the drone strikes are actually endangering us. Hopefully one day we'll all be able to wake up to the reality of the phenomena of blowback that Paul warned us about before it's too late. But then again, maybe it already is.[/quote]

This.

 

'Merican reply follows:

Who cares, all them are Muslims anyway, and all Muslims want to take over the world, this is common knowledge

 

Well as long as there are terrorists either things like this will happen or the lives Americans and others will be put at risk. I'm not racist, or theist, or w/e. However, I'd rather it be them than us. I bet all the drone attacks by now equal up to the total killed in 9/11... Nah...

I do not think that 9/11 was an inside job.

 

[quote name='"jay-bird"']Well as long as there are terrorists either things like this will happen or the lives Americans and others will be put at risk. I'm not racist, or theist, or w/e. However, I'd rather it be them than us. I bet all the drone attacks by now equal up to the total killed in 9/11.

I do not think that 9/11 was an inside job.[/quote]

Well well well fucking WELL over 9/11. 9/11 may not have been inside, but we knew about it before hand and did nothing to stop it. So really, it was 100% our fault. (Not to mention it was our fault for them wanting to, we'd been fucking that are up for a while)

 

How does it feel to be an evil person?

I'd rather it be no one dying. Not us, not "them", not anyone.

 

Check out this great article in Wired about these fuckin drones.

Not Even the White House Knows the Drones' Body Count | Danger Room | Wired.com

 

I don't know why I bother reading comments. One comment there a guy actually said Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, and that our history in the middle east began when they bombed us on 9/11.

How convenient for the US!

 

The comments are the best part! Although I hadn't read these yet so thanks for reminding me. Its fun seeing how smart and stupid people are. Just like a message board

The first comment I see is really smart

 

Shows how well informed most americans are. We've killed more civilians of there's than in 911. They killed 3000 of us so we killed thlusands more.

 

That's what you're supposed to do when attacked, it's not a tit for tat game. If somebody hits you, you hit back harder. They could have avoided the whole invasion of Afghanistan, and the bloodshed, by turning bin laden over to the United States when we asked them to. Instead, they refused to cooperate and al qaeda vowed to attack us again, even worse.

 

So Afghanistan said they knew where Bin Laden was but they wouldn't give him over? Did they say why?........I was never aware of this

 

I wonder why?

Hmmm.... What could possibly be their motivation?

Boggles the mind really.

 

The Taliban offered to turn him over to face a Muslim tribunal, or an unnamed 3rd party - not the United States.

 

so how could afghanistan have given him to the USA to avoid bloodshed? I'm confused

 

Bin Laden and his group threatened to launch more attacks against the United States. He had to be stopped. If the Taliban had cooperated there would probably have been no reason for us to invade.

 

ahhhh, ok, just like there was no reason for us to invade Iraq yet we still did