gerard:

“Drones have to be classed as a new low in human affairs.”

Yes, but this attitude is elsewhere. There is an alarming dip in ethics in our country. The digital age has brought with it a diminishment in caring about our fellow human beings.

brewtus:  It’s only fair.  I quit beating up on kids smaller than me when I was in kindergarten.

P.S.—Am I the only one who thinks that getting Obama to sign onto another Middle East war would be a sure-fire way to defeat him in 2012?

It’s the weapons, Stupid!  If we don’t use them up, we can’t make more—and then where would the economy be?  It’s our GROSS national product.

4th open theatre of war, including Pakistan - Obama’s lemming legions are not
unlikely to realize the need for an honest Primary challenger - the anit-war
movement is effectively quashed until the next Republican puppet POTUS is
installed to quell the rabble on the Right

By FRTothus, April 23 at 5:26 pm Link to this comment

How do we stop our government from doing these horrible
things just because it makes a few people rich?
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Nonviolently, of course. We politely ask them to stop.
= Sit them down in front of a showing of “Roots”.
= Ask them to imagine their kids actually joining the military.
= Explain to them that people really do not want to live in Orwell’s 1984

Learning the secret of the banking industry super-rich, which was
discovered by one congressional investigation committee, but actively
covered up since its discovery, is a good start: 
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/898.html

How do we stop our government from doing these horrible
things just because it makes a few people rich?

Robotic warfare is being reclassified by Obama and the MIC as not war but rather as an Orwellian humanitarian intervention.  We are well on our way to Terminator land.  Good thing our leaders are so righteous.

I thought I posted a comment on this yesterday, but maybe not.  Anyway, here’s a repeat: 
  It never ceases to amaze me how cowardly war has become.  How anyone can regard modern warfare as heroic is beyond my imagination.
  Of course the invention of ever-increasingly destructive weaponry, dwarfing the power of “the enemy” to counter-act, is not a new symptom of cowardice.  Bombs dropped from overhead or fired from a distance destroy thousands at one blow, with relatively little danger to the actual dropper.
  But Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) have got to be a step even lower than that. Aimed from thousands of miles away, guided with precision instrumentation
and in no way endangering the aimer, they kill massively and virtually prevent any defense, particularly when aimed at populations without similar technology. 
  Talk about “taking unfair advantage” of people! 
  Drones have to be classed as a new low in human affairs.

Geez, if Greenpeace just had warmer clothes and a nuke, they might have been able to delay oil drilling in the arctic.

‘Course then, their classification would have changed from ‘Activists’ to ‘Terrorists’.