Trump clears CIA to issue drone strikes

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(03-16-2017, 10:13 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I don't disagree with that. I'm all for it, to be quite honest. I like the model of, say, Switzerland. And if you can't physically serve in the military, well, some other civil service for you. But, I'd also like to shrink the size of our active military forces for a number of reasons, so there is that.


I don't disagree that we should do everything we can to minimize unnecessary deaths, but I draw a line at removing man from the battlefield unless we are removing all men from the battlefield. We can settle our differences on robot wars.


Not at much risk is still risk. It is still more risk than sitting in a bunker in CONUS.

(03-16-2017, 11:26 AM)Dill Wrote: So you would put your own people in harm's way, why, to be fair?

(03-16-2017, 11:44 AM)bfine32 Wrote: I only want combatants to be in harms way.

I guess I just don't see the point of putting "your" combatants in harms way if it can be avoided. Life is sacred. Or at least should be treated as such. Anything to reduce the number of causalities on either side should be done.

Romanticizing war, painting over the reason of why most wars are fought, legitimizing large numbers of deaths... it all makes people feel better, but at the end of the day you've still got people dead for no fault of their own, and many more mentally and physically injured. Some of those injuries never heal. If drones reduce those numbers, use the drones.