Trump clears CIA to issue drone strikes

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(03-16-2017, 01:50 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Most likely should not dignify this with an earnest reply but: No I do not; however, there are times when it cannot avoided. many times it is necessary to avoid collateral damage or to help those that cannot help themselves.

You just said that if life must be taken, then it should be done "in person," because life is sacred.

So dignify this with an answer: if there were a  troop of five armed Taliban on a mountainside making their way past a US COP, and you, as local commander, have the choice of sending US troops to meet them or taking them out with a drone, which do you choose? 

Life is sacred so you should save American lives, or life is sacred so your troops should take the same risk as the Taliban, "one on one"?