How Obama Decides to Kill American Citizens in the War on Terror

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Five myths about Obama’s drone war

Mark R. Jacobson

February 8 2013

 

Mark R. Jacobson is a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. From 2009 to 2011, he served with NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

 

At least since Pope Innocent II banned the use of crossbows against Christians in 1139, new military technologies have always created strategic and ethical dilemmas. And armed drones — the weapons of choice for today’s battlefield without boundaries — are no exception. Do drone strikes provide a compelling option when battling terrorist networks, or do the controversy they generate outweigh the benefit? Debates about technology, targeting and transparency have muddled an already complicated matter, so let’s take aim at some of the most common misperceptions.

 

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[SrWoodchuck]

When a tyrant of ancient times decided to kill a man....they would also kill their family & seize their property. Drug cartels do the same thing. It keeps you safe from future retribution. Herod killed all the male babies to keep his kingship....but it didn't work out so well for him....or the babies.

[Valin]

When a tyrant of ancient times decided to kill a man....they would also kill their family & seize their property. Drug cartels do the same thing. It keeps you safe from future retribution. Herod killed all the male babies to keep his kingship....but it didn't work out so well for him....or the babies.

 

Point?

[SrWoodchuck]

When a tyrant of ancient times decided to kill a man....they would also kill their family & seize their property. Drug cartels do the same thing. It keeps you safe from future retribution. Herod killed all the male babies to keep his kingship....but it didn't work out so well for him....or the babies.

 

Point?

Just noting that tyrants do the same thing whether modern or ancient.....even if our tyrant is a metrosexual effing communist.

[Valin]

When a tyrant of ancient times decided to kill a man....they would also kill their family & seize their property. Drug cartels do the same thing. It keeps you safe from future retribution. Herod killed all the male babies to keep his kingship....but it didn't work out so well for him....or the babies.

 

Point?

Just noting that tyrants do the same thing whether modern or ancient.....even if our tyrant is a metrosexual effing communist.

 

Obama a tyrant? No....Not that he would not become one if he could. This is not unknown in many politicians.

[SrWoodchuck]

I think he fits the definition....maybe you don't....that's why we have the 1st Amendment [for a while anyway]...

 

Tyrant

 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [of course this is Wiki...which is as bad as World Nut Daily];

A tyrant (Greek τύραννος, tyrannos), in its modern English usage, is a ruler of a cruel and oppressive character^[1] who is an absolute ruler unrestrained by law or constitution, or one who has usurped sovereignty. The original Greek term, however, merely meant an absolute sovereign without reference to character,^[2] bearing no pejorative connotation during the Archaic and early Classical periods, though it was clearly a bad word to Plato, and on account of the decisive influence of political philosophy its negative connotations only increased down into the Hellenistic period, becoming synonymous with "Authenteo" - another term which carried authoritarian connotations around the turn of the first century A.D.^{[citation needed]}

Plato and Aristotle define a tyrant as, "one who rules without law, looks to his own advantage rather than that of his subjects, and uses extreme and cruel tactics—against his own people as well as others"