Rip wrote:You can bet your ass when I snipe shoots something he knows whether is was a kid, a dog, or their target.
Does an F18 pilot?
I think I am honing in on the actual grievance. Killing civilians in War, bad but intrinsic. Individual targeting in "war" time, okay under specific and reviewable circumstances, not okay with collateral damage. Killing with drones, only okay when in conjunction with ground troops. Knowingly killing American citizens okay if associated with a broader strategic operation, but not okay if said citizen is only acting in conjunction but not in immediate combat presence of other enemy "combatants"
Modern reduction of bureaucratic military or judicial oversite due to more precision resources. I.E. Drones are allowing an increasingly small group of people to execute more and more specific death into the field. Which, when an American citizen may or may not be in cahoots and is in the field of engagement (read modern reality means anywhere anytime) that operational decision needs to be shared in a larger over site network.
So in general, the members here do see a fundamental need to shift how the execution of military action, at least in the insurgency and terror wars, is conducted.
July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike
Again, active combat vs. preventative. But, is it the drones or the methodology?
Is Scott home? thump thump thump Crash ......No.