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He said: "If it is lawful for the U.S. to drone al Qaeda associates whereever they find them, then it is also lawful for al Qaeda to target U.S. military or infrastructure where ever (militants) find them."
1 posted on 04/16/2013 7:55:17 PM PDT by RC one
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To: RC one

Is the Swat Valley ruled by the Sultan of Swat?


2 posted on 04/16/2013 7:56:59 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: RC one
"but you are losing the war in the longer term."

Hell, the next REAL president will just nuke all those SOB`s into Camel dust.

3 posted on 04/16/2013 7:58:48 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.)
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Emerson is full of crap. “Lawful” is what countries decide. Terrorists are stateless actors, like pirates. What he is describing may be termed some sort of moral justification, but “moral” and “lawful” are not the same thing.


4 posted on 04/16/2013 7:59:00 PM PDT by Cboldt
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in all their talk aobut Boston, has anyone in the media asked whether it was done as revenge for one of Obama’s drone attacks?

Maybe someone’s son or wife was killed in one of them.

Instead of wondering if it was some tea party or rightwing guy maybe it might actually be a direct result of something Obama did.

I won’t be holding my breath,


5 posted on 04/16/2013 8:00:38 PM PDT by jeltz25
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Pakistan has had 365 drone strikes that have killed between 2,536 and 3,577 people -- including 411 to 884 civilians.

Let a cook break that down.

Being a cook, I'm going to round some numbers. Call it 4000 dead. and at 10 people and one of my brother's in law (the .9) for nice round 11 toasties per strike.

If you take the worst case of 884 civies, and divide that by the number of drone strikes. That's 2 and half 'civilians' per strike.

So we are at 8 and a half bad guys killed per stike, assuming (and I don't) that 'civilians' are good guys.

Not bad numbers. Continue as you were.

/johnny

6 posted on 04/16/2013 8:04:25 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: RC one

Those folks have been “radicals” since time immemorial.


9 posted on 04/16/2013 8:08:14 PM PDT by lodi90
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Muzzies are always radicalized. It’s the way of Allah.


19 posted on 04/16/2013 8:19:47 PM PDT by Paladin2
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It may be true that they have been radicalized, but they overlooked one tiny thing.

*I’ve* been “radicalized.

Especially when they blew up my friend in the basement of the E-ring of the Building on 9/11.

Eff them. HHC’s husband.


44 posted on 04/16/2013 8:46:41 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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stirring the hornet’s nest .. not for the timid.. or the defenseless.


63 posted on 04/17/2013 9:42:33 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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