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Originally posted by dr_martinov dr_martinov wrote:

What's that saying, if you seek peace prepare for war?

And that's certainly what the USA has done and promises to keep on doing- spending huge amounts on expensive armaments so they can attack from the safety of their own bunkers as if playing a computer game. However, talking about failed states, how many of those attacked are now functioning societies with a decent standard of living? This isn't something that the US govt really cares about, once the impudence of the resisting government has been removed and replaced with puppets -they don't believe in social, educational or economic improvement - they can live in squalor so long as they don't resist.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote RR1972 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 January 2021 at 3:05pm
The yanks can spend what they like on defence, not our bother. Where they and the west in general fall down is a) thinking every nation wants and needd democracy like us b ) having no long term plan for aiding nations once they have helped over throw a regime.  I cry no tears for saddam or gadaffi but both those countries are worse not better now they are no longer in power there.  Drone strikes dont bother me if they taken out terrorsits. Invasions and regime changes a different matter
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Originally posted by RR1972 RR1972 wrote:

The yanks can spend what they like on defence, not our bother. Where they and the west in general fall down is a) thinking every nation wants and needd democracy like us b ) having no long term plan for aiding nations once they have helped over throw a regime.  I cry no tears for saddam or gadaffi but both those countries are worse not better now they are no longer in power there.  Drone strikes dont bother me if they taken out terrorsits. Invasions and regime changes a different matter

Yes RR but taking out terrorists only is very rarely achieved. Sitting in some air conditioned control room somewhere in Texas ordering satelite controlled drone strikes in Iraq usually results in collateral damage which nobody ever reports. Lets change the personnel a little - someone sitting in Havana calling up drone strikes on the Pentagon or White House would be quite rightly called a terrorist and guilty of war crimes. What is the difference? 

One final point - whose word do we have that any target is actually a terrorist - oops fraid so the very same organisation ordering the strike. 
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If more countries continue buying up more and more drones , all making the excuse theyre doing it for their own self defence in order to leapfrog all legal restraints , where will all this end? 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote RR1972 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 January 2021 at 7:51pm
Originally posted by GPR - Rochester GPR - Rochester wrote:

Originally posted by RR1972 RR1972 wrote:

The yanks can spend what they like on defence, not our bother. Where they and the west in general fall down is a) thinking every nation wants and needd democracy like us b ) having no long term plan for aiding nations once they have helped over throw a regime.  I cry no tears for saddam or gadaffi but both those countries are worse not better now they are no longer in power there.  Drone strikes dont bother me if they taken out terrorsits. Invasions and regime changes a different matter

Yes RR but taking out terrorists only is very rarely achieved. Sitting in some air conditioned control room somewhere in Texas ordering satelite controlled drone strikes in Iraq usually results in collateral damage which nobody ever reports. Lets change the personnel a little - someone sitting in Havana calling up drone strikes on the Pentagon or White House would be quite rightly called a terrorist and guilty of war crimes. What is the difference? 

One final point - whose word do we have that any target is actually a terrorist - oops fraid so the very same organisation ordering the strike. 
 The level of proof is prob needed for a drone strike is quite high i guess, usually these are known terrorists with a list of previous offences, info on them is wide and varied local intelligence, paid informers undercover agents. Plus satelite pics, cell phone calls hacked emails etc, there is lot of boxes to be ticked before a strike is authorised. As i said i’m not agreeing or disagreeing just stating the likely process

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If they had to make up "weapons of mass destruction" intelligence before unleashing massive war killing tens of thousands I doubt whether they'll be too bothered in a "little collateral damage -only a few muslims dead" type mistake. Just over a year ago the US killed top Iranian army major general Qasem Soleimani and his associates in a drone strike when on an official visit to Iraq to coordinate joint Iraq - Iran moves wipe out ISIS and al Qaeda terrorists in their respective countries. This provocation fortunately did not lead to an all out war mainly due to the mature response of the Iranian leadership but is clearly a reckless and gross violation of international norms and law.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote GPR - Rochester Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 January 2021 at 7:49am
Originally posted by Dai Guevara Dai Guevara wrote:

If they had to make up "weapons of mass destruction" intelligence before unleashing massive war killing tens of thousands I doubt whether they'll be too bothered in a "little collateral damage -only a few muslims dead" type mistake. Just over a year ago the US killed top Iranian army major general Qasem Soleimani and his associates in a drone strike when on an official visit to Iraq to coordinate joint Iraq - Iran moves wipe out ISIS and al Qaeda terrorists in their respective countries. This provocation fortunately did not lead to an all out war mainly due to the mature response of the Iranian leadership but is clearly a reckless and gross violation of international norms and law.

Cannot disagree Dai.
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