Time for a global Ban on Lethal Drones.

[R.C. Christian]

1. You fuckers would be bitching if Obama wasn't fighting the terrorist.
2. Why put our troops at risk?

Every nation; china, japan, france, Germany, iran all use them.

Just another tool in war.

You are missing the bigger picture. You do realize that this stupid war on "terror" is completely unnecessary and has resulted in the absolute destruction of the U.S. constitution do you not? If not, then you need to catch up on current events.

It isn't just about the current war on terror...This is being done by all countries and will be used in future wars.

Same argument could be made against guns, cross bows, airplanes and missiles. Anything that makes it unfair to a enemy could of been debated in this way.

Think of the broader picture.

Is that what you want? Eventually our "enemies" will catch up. What use it is plotting machines against one another in the skies? War is about killing people, not machines. Using machines against machines will only prolong the inevitable reality that humans will wage war upon other humans.

For the time being, the the terrorist state of the US wages war with machines on human beings with absolute authority, but that won't last long.

 

[Indofred]

1. You fuckers would be bitching if Obama wasn't fighting the terrorist.
2. Why put our troops at risk?

Every nation; china, japan, france, Germany, iran all use them.

Just another tool in war.

To the best of my knowledge:

China has considered using drones to target drug dealers but has yet to actually do so.
Japan has only used one and that was against Oregon in 1945. The similarity ends with the killing of innocent civilians.
I can't find any drone killing by France so perhaps you could link to prove your claim.
Germany - as above.
Iran - As above.

Please link to the use of drone by these countries to kill people as I might think you're a liar and that would be very naughty of me.

 

[Indofred]

For the time being, the the terrorist state of the US wages war with machines on human beings with absolute authority, but that won't last long.

I can't agree.
It isn't war as no war has been declared against any country.
It's summary execution of suspects. That means, without trial and it's commonly called, murder.

Sooner or later, a group will get hold of drone and execute Americans somewhere for their crimes against Islam but that'll be terrorism.

 

[R.C. Christian]

For the time being, the the terrorist state of the US wages war with machines on human beings with absolute authority, but that won't last long.

I can't agree.
It isn't war as no war has been declared against any country.
It's summary execution of suspects. That means, without trial and it's commonly called, murder.

Sooner or later, a group will get hold of drone and execute Americans somewhere for their crimes against Islam but that'll be terrorism.

I completely agree with you and that's the broader picture that these drone lovers can't see yet.

 

[georgephillip]

From The Atlantic Drone Debate (September 2013)

"On Thursday, October 25, 2012, as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney crisscrossed America in a final mad scramble along the campaign trail, three officers from Yemen’s elite Republican Guard were holding an unusual meeting half a world away, on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

"That day was Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, which in the Islamic tradition commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael..."

"Standing in front of them was the reason for their clandestine gathering: an 8-year-old boy..."

"At the time of the meeting, the boy didn’t know that the United States had decided to kill a man named Adnan al-Qadhi, and had turned to its allies in Yemen for assistance. Now the Yemeni government needed the child’s help.

"The Republican Guard officers told him what they wanted him to do: plant tiny electronic chips on the man he had come to think of as a surrogate father. The boy knew and trusted the officers; they were his biological father’s friends. He told them he would try.

"He would be their spy."

The eight year-old's name is Barq al-Kulaybi and his biological father was an enlisted man in Yemen's Republican Guard whose salary wasn't large enough to put food on the table for Barq and his five brothers and sisters.

Barq was sent to wealthy relatives who refused him, and he wound up living on some unfamiliar streets. Al-Qadhi took the eight year old into his home, treating him as one of his own five children.

"By the time President Obama gave the order to attack Adnan al-Qadhi, the U.S. had been killing al-Qaeda fighters for years, in places ranging from the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the deserts of Yemen and Somalia.

"The strikes had taken a toll on the terrorist organization. More than a decade after September 11, Osama bin Laden and many of the most obvious targets were already dead.

"Qadhi, a burly Yemeni military officer, was a less obvious target.

"But as the U.S. entered the second decade of its war against al-Qaeda, it increasingly found itself going after men like Qadhi, who were targeted not so much for what they had done as for what they might do."

Did an 8-Year-Old Spy for America? - Gregory D. Johnsen - The Atlantic

Hours after Obama finished celebrating his victory over Money Mitt in Chicago and half-a-world away in Yemen, the chips planted by eight year-old Barq lead to the drone demise of Qadhi and another man named Abu Radwan.

Another win for the "good guys."

 

[Billo_Really]

I thank you for proving my point.

Your point wasn't proven!

That is the reality for anyone living in an area where Predator drones are flying overhead.

You haven't proven shit!

 

[Billo_Really]

And, the alternative?

Just what would you call the alternative?

Do not use weaponized drones.